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Usability Evaluation of Multimedia Courseware (MEL-SindD)

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Visual Informatics: Bridging Research and Practice (IVIC 2009)

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Constructive evaluations on any software are needed to ensure the effectiveness and usability of the software. This assesment on the multimedia courseware is part of the researcher’s study towards the development and usability of the early reading software for students with Down Syndrome (MEL-SindD). This paper will discuss the usability assesment of this courseware, the methods used for the evaluation as well as suitable approaches that can be deployed to evaluate the courseware effectiveness to disabled children.

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  1. Jabatan Sains Maklumat, Fakulti Teknologi dan Sains Maklumat, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

    Rahmah Lob Yussof & Halimah Badioze Zaman

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  1. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

    Halimah Badioze Zaman

  2. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0FD, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Peter Robinson

  3. Communications and Signal Processing Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College, SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Maria Petrou

  4. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom

    Patrick Olivier

  5. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, 3001, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Heiko Schröder

  6. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamkang University,, Taiwan

    Timothy K. Shih

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Yussof, R.L., Badioze Zaman, H. (2009). Usability Evaluation of Multimedia Courseware (MEL-SindD). In: Badioze Zaman, H., Robinson, P., Petrou, M., Olivier, P., Schröder, H., Shih, T.K. (eds) Visual Informatics: Bridging Research and Practice. IVIC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5857. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05036-7_32

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