Bridging CALL & HCI
Input from Participatory Design
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11139/cj.27.3.576-591Keywords:
Bridging CALL & HCI, Input from Participatory Design, Participatory Design, Design, Participatory, Input, CALL & HCI, CALL, HCIAbstract
Participatory design (PD), or the collaboration between software engineers and end users throughout the design process, may help improve CALL design practices. In this case study, four ESL learners, a software designer, and a language teacher created and evaluated a series of paper prototypes concerning help options in computer-based second language listening environments in four 1-hour sessions. Qualitative data was analyzed to produce themes that included location, sequence, type, and click-through. The paper concludes by discussing how PD was incorporated in the project, the results of this integration, and suggestions for future implementations in CALL.
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