Children may expect drag-and-drop instead of point-and-click

Wolmet Barendregt; Mathilde M. Bekker

doi:10.1145/1979742.1979764

Children may expect drag-and-drop instead of point-and-click

Wolmet Barendregt, Mathilde M. Bekker

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Abstract

In this paper we present evidence from a pilot study that children may have started to expect the drag-and-drop interaction style. This is in contrast with probably the most cited paper on this topic from 2001, stating that point-and-click is the most appropriate interaction style for children between 6 and 12 years old. Instead of providing children with information on the interaction style expected we developed two point-and-click interfaces and let children explore those interfaces themselves. Children consistently tried to apply the drag-and-drop interaction style both initially and after having discovered the point-and-click style, resulting in problems in interacting with the interfaces. This was especially clear for the type of action having a natural mapping to holding down the mouse-button, such as cutting or drawing lines. In summary, it appears that children have begun to expect the drag-and-drop interaction style and that deviating from this standard may result in serious usability problems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts
Pages	1297-1302
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979764
Publication status	Published - 8 Jun 2011
Event	29th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011 - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: 7 May 2011 → 12 May 2011 Conference number: 29 http://www.chi2011.org/

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Conference	29th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011
Abbreviated title	CHI 2011
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	7/05/11 → 12/05/11
Internet address	http://www.chi2011.org/

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Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '11), 7-11 May 2011, Vancouver, Canada

Keywords

Child-computer interaction
Drag-and-drop
Mouse
Point-and-click

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Barendregt, W & Bekker, MM 2011, Children may expect drag-and-drop instead of point-and-click. in CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. pp. 1297-1302, 29th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 7/05/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979764

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