Paper Info
Title
Tools for Inclusive Play: Developing "Auslan for Kinder"
Abstract
This paper investigates the development and user testing of multimedia designed to teach four and five year old kindergarten children Australian Sign Language (Auslan). The software "Auslan for Kinder" includes vocabulary instruction, a story, song and game. The research identified three types of users: active participants; watchers and continuous clickers. The initial investigations reflect the need to change the research instrument to compensate for emerging computer skills; to provide a context for learning sign language for children who have not had exposure to hearing impaired individuals; and to provide a model of learning that is appropriate for users whose mental model of a computer is that there are embedded elements for clicking on to activate rewards.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ICITA.2005.288
Information Technology and Applications, 2005. ICITA 2005. Third International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
initial investigation,australian sign language,computer skill,impaired individual,embedded element,research instrument,sign language,continuous clickers,inclusive play,active participant,mental model,teaching,cognition,embedded computing,story,testing,game,computer skills
Australian Sign Language,User testing,Mental model,Computer science,Computer literacy,Software,Sign language,Mathematics education,Cognition,Multimedia,Vocabulary
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
2
0-7695-2316-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kirsten Ellis1126.50