Abstract
This paper is concerned with the investigationof children's use of direct manipulation mouse interaction styles when using educational software. The results of an experiment comparing two interaction styles (point-and-click and point-and-select) are presented. The context for the study relates to OLM educational software, 'Multipliotest', aimed at assisting children's learning of multiplications in French primary schools. A class of 24 children (aged 7 to 9 years old, level CE2) played two versions of this multiplication game, each version utilizing a differnt interaction style.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine - IHM '09 |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Pages | 259-262 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2009 |