How children understand concurrent comics: experiences from LOFI and HIFI prototypes

Abstract

In a study of how ten to eleven year old children understand program representations based on comic strips, it turned out that narrative interpretations were more common when using a low fidelity paper prototype than when using a high fidelity computer prototype. One explanation for this is that a computer prototype "sets the rules" to a much greater extent than a paper prototype, thus narrowing the set of plausible interpretations.