Usabilidade e aceitabilidade de atividades digitais para o ensino da voz em fonoaudiologia

Abstract

Introduction: The use of Communication and Information Technologies is expanding in higher education. In health area, technological advances add new forms of learning. The ObservaVoz platform was created to disseminate information and offer strategies of voice teaching. Two digital activities from this virtual environment were evaluated. Objective: To describe the satisfaction of the usability of digital activities and to analyze its association with sociodemographic and acceptability data by Speech Therapy students. Methods: 122 Speech Therapy students of a Brazilian public university participated of the study. They were invited to use and evaluate two digital activities of voice teaching. An online questionnaire in a self-applicable Google Docs format was used for data collection and evaluation of the activities. It was divided into sociodemographic information, System Usability Scale and Activity Acceptability Questionnaire. Descriptive data were analyzed through the frequency distribution of categorical variables and analysis of measures of central tendency and dispersion of variables. Results: Most participants rated the usability of the digital activities as good. Acceptability was considered satisfactory. There was an association between the System Usability Scale with the variables gender, contribution to learning, layout of the tools, positive appreciation and revising content possibility. Conclusion: The “ObservaVoz” digital activities “What is the Pathology?” and “Histolobby” present good characteristics of usability and acceptability according to the evaluation of Speech Therapy students.