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formerly Journal of Research on Computing in Education
JRTE, Volume 32, Number 2, Winter
1999
If You Build It, They Will
Come. But
How Will They Use It?
Wayne A. Nelson, Kathleen A. Bueno, and Steven
Huffstutler
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Abstract
This article focuses on usability engineering for multimedia learning
environments.
Usability engineering can benefit the design and development of
educational
software. This critical area of educational computing design and
development
will be discussed using illustrations and examples from a two-year
design and
development effort that produced an interactive multimedia learning
environment
for second-language learning. It is in the context of this project
that the
integration of usability engineering and educational software design
can be
better understood.
Contributors
Wayne A. Nelson is a professor of education and
chair of
the Department of Educational Leadership at
Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville.
Kathleen A. Bueno is an assistant professor in
the Foreign
Languages and Literature Department at Southern
Illinois
University Edwardsville.
Steven Huffstutler is coordinator of the Faculty
Technology
Center at Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville.
Address: Dr. Wayne Nelson, Dept. of Educational
Leadership,
School of Education, Southern Illinois University,
Edwardsville,
IL 62026; wnelson@siue.edu.
Web Links
Levi, M. D., & Conrad, F. G. (1998).
Usability testing
of World Wide Web sites [Online
document]. Washington,
DC: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Available: http://stats.bls.gov/ore/htm_papers/st960150.htm.
Meza, N. (1996). Usability and educational
software
design [Online document]. London:
King’s
College. Available: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/~simonb/bcs-hci/edtech.html.
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