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Evaluation

Here, add resources on methods and tools for evaluating technologies for families.

Harms, C. and Biocca, F. Internal consistency and reliability of the networked minds social presence measure. Proc. of Presence Workshop (2004).

A questionnaire on social presence, meant to be used in evaluations of communication technologies.

Van Baren, J., IJsselsteijn, W.A., Markopoulos, P., Romero, N., and de Ruyter, B. Measuring Affective Benefits and Costs of Awareness Systems Supporting Intimate Social Networks. Proc. of Workshop on Social Intelligence Design, (2004), 13--19.

A questionnaire for measuring the costs and benefits that mediated communication creates for the participant. This is currently in the process of being reworked, so there will be a new version soon.

Yarosh, S. and Markopoulos, P. Design of an Instrument for the Evaluation of Communication Technologies with Children. Proc. of IDC, ACM (2010), 266-269.

A questionnaire for measuring the emotional costs and benefits of communication technologies. Full-text version appropriate to use with children is included in the paper. Contact the author for the adult version.