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This poster describes a situated usability study of three digital tools in a primary classroom. The researchers studied seven and eight year old children using digital pens, personal digital assistants and tablet PCs for free-writing activities. ...

This paper describes a web based assessment tool that was used by first year undergraduate computing students. The rationale for the project is described, referencing work on educational taxonomies. The process of relating the parts of an assignment ...

This is a demonstration of a handwriting recognition based writing environment for children aged between 6 and 9. The design of the writing environment is outlined and reference is made to some of the usability issues that had to be overcome to...

This paper describes the process by which a group of seven and eight year old children designed their own digital writing tools following their own study of digital pens, personal digital assistants and tablet PCs. Some of the children's thoughts...

Focusing on the usability of the software, this paper reports the findings from an expert evaluation of a single, off the shelf, computer assisted assessment environment with an emphasis on the context in which it is being utilised. The aim of the...

This paper describes a small pilot study that looked at the immediate usability of two commercial word processors used by children. The study compared an application which was designed for children against one predominately used by adults. The...

Focusing on the usability of the software, this paper reports the findings from an expert evaluation of three, off the shelf, computer assisted assessment environments. The aim of the study was to identify whether significant usability problems...

This paper describes a 2D physics simulator for children used to gather information for a new programming environment for children incorporating a 2D physics component. It was developed to examine how children interact with such a simulator and how...