Can children perform a heuristic evaluation?
Kishan Salian, Gavin Sim, Janet C. Read · 2013
Inspection based methods are not widely researched in the area of Child Computer Interaction. This paper reports the findings of a study to analyze the effectiveness of the heuristic evaluation method when using children as expert evaluators. In total 14 children participated in the study, evaluating a music making game on a laptop. The results showed that children could perform a heuristic evaluation but they encountered problems in understanding severity ratings, allocating problems found to the heuristic set and aggregating the problems. Further research will be performed to modify the process in an attempt to eliminate these issues in order to improve the method for children.