Emotions, private speech, involvement and other aspects of young children's interactions with educational apps

The aim of this study is to evaluate how young children use and interact with mobile applications by observing the reactions and behaviour of four-year-old children while interacting with fifteen educational apps. A multimodal non-intrusive research procedure was applied to twelve participants in a kindergarten in Brazil. Structured observations and qualitative fieldnotes were employed to assess game understanding and achievement, emotions,...