期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT)
印刷版ISSN：0975-4660
电子版ISSN：0975-3826
出版年度：2016
卷号：8
期号：4
页码：63
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：For more than two decades children’s use of multimedia was restricted to watching television and listeningto music. Although some parents complained about children being addicted to listening to music the ideathat children could be addicted to television was a real concern to most parents. Nowadays parents notonly need to be concerned about how much television their kids are watching, but also many other forms ofmedia that are emerging with the fast development in information and technology such as the internet,video games, tablets and smart phones. From this the researcher came to realize that children areincreasingly becoming the consumers of application software facilitated by these information systems.Children spend at least three hours according to research on these media which includes the use ofcomputers, tablets, smartphones and music. The researcher was concerned that system vendors use thesame learnability principles to make applications for all age groups based on learnability principles thatwere designed with adult users in mind. Many interface design principles used for adult products cannot beapplied to products meant for children and further yet children at different ages learn differently. Theresearch looked at the existing learnability principles by trying to evaluate them and come up with newprinciple(s) that can be used to further improve the current principles so that they can be used effectivelyby information system designers to improve on the learnability of their application software meant forchildren of different age groups.
