Improving interface design of game-based learning courseware / Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah Ahmad Zubaidi

Game has traditionally been used in learning, particularly in preschool education. There are many game-based courseware applications available and have been included as part of the children's syllabus to support learning these days. However, most of these game-based learning coursewares have no...

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spelling my-uitm-ir.629082022-08-05T03:43:55Z Improving interface design of game-based learning courseware / Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah Ahmad Zubaidi 2011-05 Ahmad Zubaidi, Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah Application program interfaces Computer games Game has traditionally been used in learning, particularly in preschool education. There are many game-based courseware applications available and have been included as part of the children's syllabus to support learning these days. However, most of these game-based learning coursewares have not been tested for learnability. The paper focuses on to find out whether the game-based learning courseware is supporting learnability to preschool children or not. To conduct the study, a method of usability testing that allows preschool children ages 5 to 6 years old to play with the game-based learning courseware was used. From the usability testing, the interface design problems in the game-based learning courseware have been analyzed and improved based on literature reviews of previous researchers and SEM model. After the improvement done, the game-based learning have been tested again and findings gained. The findings show that the game-based learning courseware has the learnability element but yet there were few issues have to be improved. For future study, a few suggestions of effective interface and interaction design for game-based learning courseware have been given based on the findings. Keywords Learnability, interface design, game-based learning courseware. 2011-05 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/62908/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/62908/1/62908.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences Abdul Razak, Fariza Hanis (Dr.)
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
collection UiTM Institutional Repository
language English
advisor Abdul Razak, Fariza Hanis (Dr.)
topic Application program interfaces
Computer games
spellingShingle Application program interfaces
Computer games
Ahmad Zubaidi, Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah
Improving interface design of game-based learning courseware / Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah Ahmad Zubaidi
description Game has traditionally been used in learning, particularly in preschool education. There are many game-based courseware applications available and have been included as part of the children's syllabus to support learning these days. However, most of these game-based learning coursewares have not been tested for learnability. The paper focuses on to find out whether the game-based learning courseware is supporting learnability to preschool children or not. To conduct the study, a method of usability testing that allows preschool children ages 5 to 6 years old to play with the game-based learning courseware was used. From the usability testing, the interface design problems in the game-based learning courseware have been analyzed and improved based on literature reviews of previous researchers and SEM model. After the improvement done, the game-based learning have been tested again and findings gained. The findings show that the game-based learning courseware has the learnability element but yet there were few issues have to be improved. For future study, a few suggestions of effective interface and interaction design for game-based learning courseware have been given based on the findings. Keywords Learnability, interface design, game-based learning courseware.
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author Ahmad Zubaidi, Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah
author_facet Ahmad Zubaidi, Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah
author_sort Ahmad Zubaidi, Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah
title Improving interface design of game-based learning courseware / Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah Ahmad Zubaidi
title_short Improving interface design of game-based learning courseware / Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah Ahmad Zubaidi
title_full Improving interface design of game-based learning courseware / Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah Ahmad Zubaidi
title_fullStr Improving interface design of game-based learning courseware / Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah Ahmad Zubaidi
title_full_unstemmed Improving interface design of game-based learning courseware / Nur 'Atiqah Bahirah Raidah Ahmad Zubaidi
title_sort improving interface design of game-based learning courseware / nur 'atiqah bahirah raidah ahmad zubaidi
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
granting_department Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
publishDate 2011
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/62908/1/62908.pdf
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