Systematic review and usability evaluation of writing mobile apps for children

IF 1.4 4区计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI:10.1080/13614568.2019.1677787

M. S. Missen, A. Javed, Hina Asmat, Mariam Nosheen, Mickael Coustaty, N. Salamat, V. B. Surya Prasath

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Writing apps for children have been developed in recent year to support effective learning and writing skills of students. In this work, we perform a systematic review of all currently available apps for the operating system iOS and Android. We consider a number of newly release children writing apps by focusing on their features like the range of functions, target user groups, operating language, acquisition costs, user ratings and the connection between acquisition cost and user ratings. In total, we analysed 497 apps based on functions offered and their cost to users. In addition to the systematic review of apps, we also perform a participant-based usability evaluation of a representative sample i.e. 8% sample of the total collected apps. Totally 40 apps are selected for usability evaluation including 20 apps for iOS and the remaining 20 apps for Android. As a result of usability evaluation of apps, it is found out that with the increase in the number of functions in a mobile app, the usability of the app decreases. The subjective evaluation reveals that participants felt better user experience with iPhone in comparison to Android enabled devices.

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儿童移动应用程序编写的系统回顾和可用性评估

摘要近年来，为支持学生的有效学习和写作技能，开发了针对儿童的写作应用程序。在这项工作中，我们对iOS和Android操作系统中所有当前可用的应用程序进行了系统审查。我们考虑了一些新发布的儿童写作应用程序，重点关注它们的功能范围、目标用户群体、操作语言、获取成本、用户评级以及获取成本与用户评级之间的联系。总的来说，我们根据提供的功能及其对用户的成本分析了497款应用程序。除了对应用程序进行系统审查外，我们还对代表性样本进行了基于参与者的可用性评估，即所收集应用程序总数的8%样本。共选择了40个应用程序进行可用性评估，其中20个应用程序适用于iOS，其余20个适用于Android。对应用程序的可用性进行评估后发现，随着移动应用程序中功能数量的增加，应用程序的使用性会降低。主观评估显示，与安卓设备相比，参与者使用iPhone的用户体验更好。

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New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS-

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3.40

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期刊介绍： The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM) is an interdisciplinary journal providing a focus for research covering practical and theoretical developments in hypermedia, hypertext, and interactive multimedia.