The paper reports a comparative assessment of 3 usability-testing methods (UTM) involving 45 children aged 8-14 as test-users. The 3 methods were concurrent think-aloud, interview and questionnaire. These 3 UTM ’s require different levels of verbalisation from the children that were performing the evaluation. It was hypothesised that the age of the children, their gender, verbal competence and ...

UNLABELLED Observations obtained through concurrent think-aloud and protocol analysis offer new understanding about the influence of social learning on student nurses' acquisition of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) knowledge and skills. The software used provides a permanent record of the underpinning study method, events and analyses. The emerging themes reflect the dimensions o...

Discourse audiences are susceptible to fall victims of the concealed ideological representations in discourses at the expanse of changing and modifying their mental models through which they act on the world. Translators as readers and at the same time intercultural mediators need to be equipped with the knowledge of how ideology is accommodated in discourse both not to fall victim to it and to...

The present study aims to investigate language learners’ cognitive processes in on-line ESP courses. Three modes of inquiry are used: think-aloud protocol analysis, screen capture analysis, and correlation analysis. The theoretical foundations for the evaluation of the cognitive aspect of Ferdowsi Univeristy of Mashhad E-learning System are drawn from cognitive load theory, cognitive apprentice...

In this paper, review and research is made on usability testing in the Geo-information environment, as used in modern digital cartographic visualization. Modern Cartography is more than the presentations of geographical information in a map form. Nowadays, it is seen as Geo-visualization, involving the visual exploration of data by an individual scientist as well as the final presentation to a ...

This study demonstrates that explicit metacognitive training appear to benefit lower achievers’ mathematical word problem solving in a computer environment. 11 to 12year-old Singaporean students in collaborative pairs were assigned to two word problem solving groups. The first group received explicit metacognitive training before word problem solving with WordMath (treatment); and the second gr...

Chapter 1: Introduction: A Hidden World of Nonformal Expert Reasoning This chapter motivates the study of nonformal methods experts use during the process of creative theory formation rather than those they display in polished articles after the fact, and describes the method of video taped think aloud protocols used in this study. The tapes capture scientists in the act of: mentally performing...

EQUALIZATION REVISITED: ITS ROLE AND DESIGN BY ROBIN BOADWAY QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY Introduction Equalization is very much in the news these days. The program is the last vestige of the 1970s’ federal-provincial fiscal arrangements to remain more or less intact over the period of federal retrenchment. As such, it seems to be a sitting duck, a target for potshots from think tanks, pundits, ex-politi...

Users involved in task fulfillment during usability testing undergo layers of affective and cognitive processing which has been of interest to the community of interaction designers. The iterative cycles of User Centered Design process utilize this information from users for the redesign process. Think Aloud, which is the most prevalent Usability evaluation method in practice, has been criticiz...

Historically, mathematics has often been regarded as a role model for all of science – a paragon of abstraction, logical precision, and objectivity. The 19th and early 20th centuries saw tremendous progress. The great mathematician David Hilbert proposed a sweeping program whereby the entire panorama of higher mathematical abstractions would be justified objectively and logically, in terms of f...