Interfaces de Usuario en Aplicaciones de Apoyo Didácticas para Niños con TDAH. Hacia el Análisis de la Carga Cognitiva en IHC

Abstract

For children with Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD now and after), a successful integration with their environment, especially in the traditional educational environment is a meaningful goal; the early attention to ADHD symptoms plays a relevant role for successful itegration. The HCI area has addressed the problem through the investigation of mechanisms, like specializated software, to support it education with intervention activities and/or mitigation of symptoms. In this work, it is proposed to start from the opposite point of view, taking the premises of the DCU and from the cognitive load approach, assuming that the usability of the interfaces, the structure and the cognitive task load, designed for these support softwares require the deep knowledge of the user. Therefore, to start with the exploration process, an experiment have proposed to describe the cognitive task load manifested by children with ADHD when use educational apps through different interface devices such as touchscreen, joystick, and videogames console controls and mouse/keyboard. An adhoc educational app has designed and the NASA-TLX instrument has used with an adaptation in the answers scale that will use the interviewee and it contrasted with a control group.