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Design of an instrument for the evaluation of communication technologies with children

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In designing communication technology for children, it is important to understand the affective benefits and costs introduced by a particular medium. We present an Affective Benefits and Costs of Communication Technologies Questionnaire appropriate for use with native English-speaking children aged 8--10. We discuss the iterative design and testing of the survey instrument and provide the current survey items.

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    IDC '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
    June 2010
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    DOI:10.1145/1810543
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