Measuring Fun and Enjoyment of Children in a Museum: Evaluating the Smileyometer
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Measuring Fun and Enjoyment of Children in a Museum : Evaluating the Smileyometer. / van der Sluis, Frans; van Dijk, E.M.A.G. (Betsy); Perloy, L.M. (Bert).
2012. 86-89 Paper presented at Measuring Behavior 2012, Utrecht, Netherlands.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Measuring Fun and Enjoyment of Children in a Museum
T2 - Measuring Behavior 2012
AU - van der Sluis, Frans
AU - van Dijk, E.M.A.G. (Betsy)
AU - Perloy, L.M. (Bert)
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Measuring fun and enjoyment with children is not trivial. Subjective measures are known to suffer from an experimenter effect and often lack detail in their answering. With increasing age, children develop increasing skills and ability which explain their different answering tendencies as compared to adults. Piaget noted the development of thinking skills around the age of 11, where children learned to use abstract concepts and reflect upon them. This includes selfregulation, a skill consisting of self-motivation, attention control, self-monitoring, and self-evaluation. For a subjective measure of fun and enjoyment these skills are pivotal. Special subjective instruments have been developed for children, such as the Smileyometer. This instrument uses images of smileys to make the items on a scale more recognizable. In this paper we will review the Smileyometer on the basis of two studies in a science museum in The Hague, The Netherlands. Both studies evaluate the enjoyment of children during a quest through the museum that started at a multi-touch table with the selection of topics of interest from the museum’s permanent exhibition.
AB - Measuring fun and enjoyment with children is not trivial. Subjective measures are known to suffer from an experimenter effect and often lack detail in their answering. With increasing age, children develop increasing skills and ability which explain their different answering tendencies as compared to adults. Piaget noted the development of thinking skills around the age of 11, where children learned to use abstract concepts and reflect upon them. This includes selfregulation, a skill consisting of self-motivation, attention control, self-monitoring, and self-evaluation. For a subjective measure of fun and enjoyment these skills are pivotal. Special subjective instruments have been developed for children, such as the Smileyometer. This instrument uses images of smileys to make the items on a scale more recognizable. In this paper we will review the Smileyometer on the basis of two studies in a science museum in The Hague, The Netherlands. Both studies evaluate the enjoyment of children during a quest through the museum that started at a multi-touch table with the selection of topics of interest from the museum’s permanent exhibition.
KW - Smileyometer
KW - children
KW - measuring fun and enjoyment
KW - museum
M3 - Paper
SP - 86
EP - 89
Y2 - 28 August 2012 through 31 August 2012
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