scholarly journals Mobile communication for Intellectually Challenged people: A proposed set of requirements for interface design on touch screen devices

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zelai Saenz de Urturi Breton ◽  
Fernando Jorge Hernandez ◽  
Amaia Mendez Zorrilla ◽  
Begonya Garcia Zapirain
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Touch Screen ◽  
Touch Screen Devices

scholarly journals Exploring Limitations of User Interface Design to Understanding the Gap Between Technology and Seniors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Jingar ◽  
Helena Lindgren ◽  
Madeleine Blusi
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Touch Screen ◽  
User Interface Design ◽  
Healthy Ageing ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
Touch Screen Devices ◽  
Society Today

Participating in social activities promotes healthy ageing, whereas loneliness and isolation are known to cause adverse effects on both physical and mental wellbeing. Technology that exists in society today can facilitate healthy ageing. However, a gap can be seen between seniors and technology in today’s internet and communication technological device’s user interfaces. Due to limited prior knowledge of interacting with touch screen devices, seniors sometimes have difficulties using them. This research aims to explore the user interfaces and their elements designed using a human-centered design methodology by involving seniors as activate participants in the design process. This work’s outcome can improve current user interface design practices in touch screen devices, which might be seen as contributing step to understand the gap between seniors and technology.

A touch screen interface design with tactile feedback for practical applications

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Nishino ◽  
Ryotaro Goto ◽  
Yuki Fukakusa ◽  
Jiaqing Lin ◽  
Tsuneo Kagawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interface Design ◽  
Touch Screen ◽  
Tactile Feedback ◽  
Practical Applications

scholarly journals Older Adults-Friendly Multi-Modal Touch-Screen Platform Measures for Bilingual Cognitive Interventions

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 816-816
Author(s):  
W Quin Yow ◽  
Tharshini Lokanathan ◽  
Hui-Ching Chen
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Cognitive Training ◽  
Touch Screen ◽  
Cognitive Intervention ◽  
Cognitive Interventions ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Poor Comprehension ◽  
Touch Screen Devices

Abstract There is an increasing interest in using touch-screen devices to conduct cognitive training and collect measurements of cognitive performance. However, older adults often have concerns such as anxiety about using these systems and poor comprehension of language instructions (Czaja & Lee, 2007). Given that Singapore is a multilingual society, we examined the deployment of an age-friendly multi-modal touch-screen platform (a game-based application on a tablet) in a cognitive intervention research. After modification of the platform to include features such as simplified instructions, multi-level prompts with a local accent, and four different instructional languages (including local dialects), participants were less reliant on the researchers and reported fewer difficulties in comprehending the instructions. The integrity and reliability of the data collected improved as a result. In sum, multilingual age-friendly touch-screen platform can be a novel yet effective method to study cognitive interventions in the Asian older adult populations.

The Ergonomic Impact of Swype

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 1374-1378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibukun A. Sonaike ◽  
Tosin A. Bewaji ◽  
Paul Ritchey ◽  
S. Camille Peres
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Touch Screen ◽  
Dynamic Activity ◽  
Extensor Muscles ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Touch Screen Devices ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
Biomechanical Strain

Background:Shape writing is relatively new technology for on-screen keyboards that enable users of mobile touch-screen devices to input text by drawing continuous lines. With growth of touch-screen device usage, there has risen the need to investigate potential risks that may occur during prolonged usage. Objective: The biomechanical strain on upper limb muscles were assessed while study-participants used Swype technology on a tablet touch screen device and compared with traditional/regular input methods. Methods: Study-participants performed typing tasks (email and text) using Swype and regular input methods under counterbalanced conditions with sEMG data collected to measure muscle activity during tasks. Results: Email & Text had the same exertion for all muscles except the Extensor. The interaction between task and muscle was significant, F (1.6, 27.5) = 15.39, p < .001, ηp2 = 0.48. The interaction between muscle, task and method was also significant, F (2.19, 37.19) = 3.6, p = 0.03, ηp2= 0.18. Exertion was lower for Swype but with marginal significance. Overall, Email resulted in less dynamic activity than Text with Main effects F(1, 17) = 10.07, p = 0.006, ηp2 = 0.37. Extensor has more dynamic activity than other muscles with main effect F(1.8, 29.9) = 16.51, p < 0.001, ηp2 = 0.49. Conclusion: Results indicate that Swype presents no more biomechanical strain than regular input for most muscles. Swype may result in less exertion for the Extensor muscles in the lower arm. This may be particularly true for tasks requiring interactions like those found in the email task.

Eliciting Usability from Blind User Mental Model for Touch Screen Devices

2014 ◽  
pp. 581-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Fakrudeen ◽  
Maaruf Ali ◽  
Sufian Yousef ◽  
Abdelrahman H. Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Mental Model ◽  
Touch Screen ◽  
Blind User ◽  
Touch Screen Devices
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