Constructive interaction provides natural thinking-aloud as test subjects collaborate to solve tasks. Since children may face difficulties in following instructions for a standard think-aloud test, constructive interaction has been suggested as evaluation method when conducting usability testing with children. However, the relationship between thinkaloud and constructive interaction is still po...

Participants were observed while searching and browsing the internet for campaign information in a mock-voting situation in three online note-taking conditions: No Notes, Private Notes, and Shared Notes. Note taking significantly influenced the manner in which participants browsed for information about candidates. Note taking competed for time and cognitive resources and resulted in less thorou...

Learning material in multimedia learning environments is frequently made up of text and pictures. Many students, however, have difficulties learning from such material successfully. In order to support students’ learning, we conceptualized a deep level strategy and a surface level strategy for learning from text and pictures. In an experimental study we investigated whether students who exercis...

Lucas G. S. Jeub, Prakash Balachandran, Mason A. Porter, 3 Peter J. Mucha, 5 and Michael W. Mahoney 7 Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA CABDyN Complexity Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 1HP, UK Department of Applied Physical Sci...

The detection of indoor landmarks remains a troublesome endeavour. The rise of more performant and user-friendly mobile eye tracking devices might offer a solution. A small-scale study was conducted in which a test population was given a navigational task and whereby eye movement measures and think aloud protocols were compared. The first results indicate that eye tracking has high potential fo...

Abstract The concept of historical significance is seen as a key reasoning. Assigning based on criteria and related to the identity who assigns significance. However, little known about reasoning-, reading-, writing processes when students attribute aim this study investigate how experienced history teachers with master’s degree reason, read, write while thinking aloud. We analyzed think-aloud ...

Methods Data were collected from audiotaped think aloud periods, in which participants described their self care decision making over three 1 week periods; individual interviews held before and after think aloud periods; and a 2 hour focus group interview at the study conclusion. Transcripts of think aloud periods were used to develop interview prompts. All transcripts were analysed using const...