ABSTRACT
Typically, children are first exposed to childoriented web pages when they are introduced to the Internet world. Such web pages are usually designed based on an adults’ understanding of children, which leads to the nonconformity between existing web pages and children’s preferences and also tends to cause obstructions in applications (Nielsen, 2010). To solve this problem, many studies have adopted participatory design (Chen et al., 2004; Ruland et al., 2008), in which children play the role of design partners, and child-oriented web pages are constructed according to the children’s preferences, user experience, and level of intelligence (Pfeil et al., 2011). Most of these studies, however, still rely on advice from experts, resulting in a gap between the actual outcome and children’s expectations. Therefore, it is necessary for the children to act as the core of the design team in order to construct web pages that match their preferences.
