Development and evaluation of the picture cards method
Wolmet Barendregt, Mathilde M. Bekker · 2005
This paper describes the development and assessment of a new evaluation method that encourages young children to express both usability and fun problems while playing a computer game. The method combines the traditional thinking-aloud method with picture cards that children can put in a box to indicate that there is a problem. An experiment to assess this method shows that children indicate more problems in a direct way with the picture cards than without the picture cards. Children do not just replace verbalizations by picture cards and most children prefer to use the picture cards during the test.