Evaluating Interactive Technology with Children

Read, Janet C. and Horton, Matthew and Fitton, Daniel (2025) Evaluating Interactive Technology with Children. In: CHI '25 : Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 1-3. ISBN 9798400713958

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Abstract

While evaluating technology with adults is well understood, evaluating interactive technology with child users has received far less attention and raises a range of unusual and unexpected challenges. With more children than ever before using interactive technology on a daily basis, this course, for practitioners and researchers, aims to provide a succinct and useful introduction to evaluating technology with children. The course begins with the developmental and ethical challenges of working with children, then covers a range of foundational evaluation techniques, along with how techniques are used and how results are reported both in publications and to child audiences.