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Five Degrees of Happiness: Effective Smiley Face Likert Scales for Evaluating with Children

Hall, Lynne, Hume, Colette and Tazzyman, Sarah (2016) Five Degrees of Happiness: Effective Smiley Face Likert Scales for Evaluating with Children. In: IDC '16: Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. ACM, pp. 311-321. ISBN 9781450343138

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Abstract

This paper focuses on achieving optimal responses through supporting children’s judgements, using Smiley Face Likert scales as a rating scale for quantitative questions in evaluations. It highlights the need to provide appropriate methods for children to communicate judgements, highlighting that the traditional Smiley Face Likert scale does not provide an appropriate method. The paper outlines a range of studies, identifying that to achieve differentiated data and full use of rating scales by children that faces with positive emotions should be used within Smiley Face Likert scales. The proposed rating method, the Five Degrees of Happiness Smiley Face Likert scale, was used in a large-scale summative evaluation of a Serious Game resulting in variance within and between children, with all points of the scale used.

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Additional Information: IDC '16: Interaction Design and Children Manchester United Kingdom June, 2016
Depositing User: Lynne Hall

Identifiers

Item ID: 6965
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1145/2930674.2930719
ISBN: 9781450343138
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6965
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2930674.2930719

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ORCID for Lynne Hall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5090-1980

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Date Deposited: 29 Mar 2017 13:41
Last Modified: 26 Jan 2021 11:41

Contributors

Author: Lynne Hall ORCID iD
Author: Colette Hume
Author: Sarah Tazzyman

University Divisions

Faculty of Technology
Faculty of Technology > FOT Executive

Subjects

Computing > Human-Computer Interaction
Computing

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