Investigating children preferences of a user interface design

• Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
• Main Author: Taslim J.; Wan Adnan W.A.; Abu Bakar N.A.
• Format: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-70350320995&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-02574-7_57&partnerID=40&md5=8bbf4539135fb2e898785d9c05b7cd25

Though there have been many studies of user interface design preferences, only a few have considered the children preferences. This paper presents an investigation into the children preferences regarding user interface design. The objective of studying this area is to investigate the differences of children preferences on the elements of a user interface design. An experiment was conducted regarding five elements of user interface design: font type, font size, background color and interface type. Findings show that there is a significant differences in the children preferences for interface type, font type and background color. Further analysis was conducted and the results indicate that there is a significant difference between gender groups for background color, interface type and font color. This study provides empirical evidence on the importance of considering the children in the interface design. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.