A review of mental models research in child-computer interaction
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...The latter is likely especially true for children, who may also have insufficient manual dexterity skills and/or mental agility to prepare an accurate representation of their mental models (Marhan et al. 2012)....
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...At each step, we prompted children to describe and discuss their drawings to foster the elicitation of their mental models in the context of a teach-back interview [19]....
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...“While many adults struggle with comprehending and manipulating digital interfaces, today‘s young children enthusiastically approach these interfaces with little or no effort, although they may not completely understand how to use it, or what their implications are” [3]....
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...[12][6][10], environment of operations [8]....
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...However, this child may encounter a football (an ellipsoid) that is kicked or thrown, or a bowling ball that is solid and has holes drilled into for the purpose of rolling rather than bouncing (Vosniadou & Brewer, 1992)....
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...In terms of Gentner & Gentner (1983), analogical thinking allows people to generalize on the basis of past experiences and use this generic information in new contexts....
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...Developed by Pask in the framework of the “conversation theory” (Pask & Scott, 1972), it consists in asking the student to tell /teach an other person, in his own words, what he believes a topic to be (how he or she understands it)....
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