USER FEEDBACK

I used a likert scale questionnaire after the experimental sessions as this type of questionnaire was probably the most suitable for children. It consisted of just 3 questions that had the open-ended question 'why' at the end of each question. Asking why at the end of question was a way to encourage participants to justify their decisions.

"Sounds help me a bit in completing the task, because it told me what to do"

"Yes sounds was helpful because it helped me get it right"

" The sounds made it a bit easy. It helped but I was still able to do it without sound"

"Sounds kept distracting me"

"Sounds were annoying. I could not concentrate when people kept touching; I keep getting all mixed up"

"I prefer session 1 with no sound because I want to do it by my-self instead of telling"

" I prefer session II, with the sound"

"I liked session 1&2"

Summary of answers to questions asked in the follow-up questionnaire after experiments

Informal interview

AA common complaint heard in the informal interview following the questionnaire was that sounds were distracting and annoying. Participants said although it helped them it was still annoying. A participant then expressed her opinion on how she thought the sound should be; she said she would prefer it if there were short sounds. Another participant agreed to this.

They also complained in the informal interview that task was beginning to get boring, as they were required to build the same stories over and over. Although participants was not given a choice to see if they would prefer visual cues over audio cues; two experimental participants mentioned they would have also liked visual only but no sounds, because sounds became annoying.

Below are pictures of participants in a lab at uni working on task on touchable surface.