Ergonomic considerations for media application in the educational environments of elementary school students

Educational technologies have been improvingfunctionally.The importance of these virtual environments in today's computerized world has a major emphasis concerning their educational, entertaining and working uses. Considering the use of technology in education as a pedagogical alternative involving playfulness and some matters facing Environmental Education, this research aims to analyze the applicability of ergonomics in digital educational interfaces for elementary school students. Regarding the ergonomics- a science capable of raising improvement issues related to the tool/interface/user system- the behavioral records, interviews, task assessments, systematic and unsystematic observations occurred in a multimedia laboratory in order to analyze the interfacial and cognitive factors that limit the users' interaction with mediatic interfaces.

Educational technologies; Design; Ergonomics