Usabilidade de site e tecnologia wiki aplicadas ao jogo de xadrez no ambiente virtual =: Usability of site and wiki technology applied to the chess set in virtual environment

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Christofoletti, Danielle Ferreira Auriemo [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Chess; Xadrez; Design centrado no usuário; Wiki (Computação); Jogos por computador; Tecnologias de informação e comunicação
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110445

In today’s world, the technology of the information is present as an innovation that takes part of the daily life, instigating the interaction in virtual spaces and in social networks more frequently. Due to this new social interaction, understanding the usability of these technological tools and their quality becomes a necessary question to improve the use of these possibilities. Thus, this qualitative and quantitative study investigated the reasons of adherence of chess players in virtual spaces, as well as the site usability to the online chess games, in the context of virtual leisure, under user´s perspective. As a result of this research it was also drawn up a wiki for teaching the chess game. The study consisted of a literature review and an exploratory research, using an open questionnaire for sample identification, mixed questionnaire to evaluate the use of the wiki and an inventory of usability of sites called IUSE-18, designed for this study, as instrument for data collection. Three intentional samples participated in the study, the first one composed by 9 teachers from 3 different countries with pedagogical experience over 5 years, who helped to draw up the inventory of usability of sites for chess players, the second intentional sample composed by 130 adults chess players of both genders, who elucidated their reasons to adhere to the online chess, as well as volunteered to evaluate the IXC site, through the IUSE-18 and a third sample, which had 12 students from Lisbon, Portugal, of both genders, who contributed with this research opining about the use of the wiki to teach chess as a pedagogical strategy. Data were descriptively and statistically analyzed, by using Thematic Content Analysis and also the Inter-class Correlation Coefficient, in order to check the consistency of the responses among judges-evaluators and the Kappa Index, which assesses if the responses of the judges evaluators were in accordance, used for both...