Measuring fun with adolescents: introducing the Spanish and Dutch adaptation of the FunQ

It is increasingly understood how fun is an essentialaspect in interaction for children in or beyond gameplay, as well as supporting learning and other activitiesinvolving children, e.g., for participatory design. Whileit is often proclaimed that such activities are fun forchildren participants, empirical evidence is hard tocome by as measuring fun is not straightforward.Currently available assessment tools suitable foradolescents are scarce. FunQ is a recently developedmeasurement tool specifically designed for adolescentsfor the assessment of the experienced fun. Here wediscuss ongoing work for adapting FunQ - to Spanishand Dutch. We report on the process followed to adaptthe questionnaire; the reliability measures based on theinitial results (ωoverall-SP= 0.876 and ωpartial-SP= 0.859;ωoverall-NL= 0.819 and ωpartial-NL= 0.804); and discuss ourfindings in reflection of the current state of theadaptation procedure