Title
Planning effective HCI to enhance access to educational applications
Abstract
Information and communications technologies (ICT) are widely believed to offer new options for Web-mediated courseware design. Multimedia and online courseware development accentuates a belief that highly graphical (or visual) delivery media will meet the individualised instructional requirements of diverse student cohorts. While most electronic courseware may allow the user to proceed at their own pace, two assumptions are commonly made by courseware designers. Firstly, to facilitate learning, all users are assumed capable of assimilating the graphical content with their current experiential knowledge. There is little or no consideration of different cognitive styles. Understanding learner attributes is essential to increasing accessibility to computerised information. Secondly, learning is assumed rather than demonstrated. To deal with this issue, data analysis techniques can be used to differentiate between what an individual knows from what they do not. This paper presents two research projects that demonstrate the importance of awareness for the human-dimension of human-computer interaction (HCI) in designing effective online experiential learning for special education.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/s10209-007-0070-3
Universal Access in the Information Society
Keywords
DocType
Volume
web-mediated courseware design,courseware designer,computerised information,educational application,current experiential knowledge,data analysis technique,communications technology,human-computer interaction instructional design courseware design,online courseware development,effective hci,effective online experiential,electronic courseware,graphical content,data analysis techniques,knowledge management,cognitive style,instructional design,computer human interaction,information and communication technology,experiential learning,human computer interaction,special education
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1615-5297
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.63
2
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elspeth McKay198.19