3,016 research outputs found
Interaction techniques for older adults using touchscreen devices : a literature review
International audienceSeveral studies investigated different interaction techniques and input devices for older adults using touchscreen. This literature review analyses the population involved, the kind of tasks that were executed, the apparatus, the input techniques, the provided feedback, the collected data and author's findings and their recommendations. As conclusion, this review shows that age-related changes, previous experience with technologies, characteristics of handheld devices and use situations need to be studied
Ease-of-Use of Tactile Interaction for Novice Older Adults
International audienceUsability, particularly ease-of-use, is a main factor affecting the acceptance of technologies by older adults. Mobile devices offer great possibilities for well-being applications, but they are often equipped with touchscreen. In order to evaluate the ease-of-use of tactile interaction, this study compares the performances of 16 novice (mean age 74) and 8 experienced older adults (mean 75) during the execution of drag-and-drop interaction for achieving tactile puzzle games on smartphone and tablet, with pen and fingers. Results show that novice users were able accomplish interaction accurately with longer times but no significant difference of errors of accuracy
The effect of dyadic interactions on learning rotate gesture for technology-naĂŻve older adults
Older adults having limited experience with modern computing technology may find it difficult to learn touch gestures, especially the more complex rotate gesture. Social interactions, as implied by social constructivism, are assumed to be powerful in enabling older adults to acquire the skill of touch gestures. The social effect can be reinforced with the motivational effect of digital games. To verify the assumption, we conducted empirical studies with 59 older adults, who were divided into two groups: 17 Singles and 21 Dyads. They were asked to play a set of digital games on a multi-touch tabletop. Results show that on average Dyads have spent significantly longer time in the games and have performed a significantly higher number of correct rotate gestures than Singles. Future work focuses on analyzing the emotional aspect of social interactions and identifying further applications of social gaming to other ageing issue
Software Usability
This volume delivers a collection of high-quality contributions to help broaden developersâ and non-developersâ minds alike when it comes to considering software usability. It presents novel research and experiences and disseminates new ideas accessible to people who might not be software makers but who are undoubtedly software users
Instructional eLearning technologies for the vision impaired
The principal sensory modality employed in learning is vision, and that not only increases the difficulty for vision impaired students from accessing existing educational media but also the new and mostly visiocentric learning materials being offered through on-line delivery mechanisms. Using as a reference Certified Cisco Network Associate (CCNA) and IT Essentials courses, a study has been made of tools that can access such on-line systems and transcribe the materials into a form suitable for vision impaired learning. Modalities employed included haptic, tactile, audio and descriptive text. How such a multi-modal approach can achieve equivalent success for the vision impaired is demonstrated. However, the study also shows the limits of the current understanding of human perception, especially with respect to comprehending two and three dimensional objects and spaces when there is no recourse to vision
Emotional self-regulation of individuals with autism spectrum disorders: smartwatches for monitoring and interaction
In this paper, we analyze the needs of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
to have a pervasive, feasible and non-stigmatizing form of assistance in their emotional self-regulation,
in order to ease certain behavioral issues that undermine their mental health throughout their life.
We argue the potential of recent widespread wearables, and more specifically smartwatches, to achieve
this goal. Then, a smartwatch system that implements a wide range of self-regulation strategies
and infers outburst patterns from physiological signals and movement is presented, along with an
authoring tool for smartphones that is to be used by caregivers or family members to create and edit
these strategies, in an adaptive way. We conducted an intensive experiment with two individuals
with ASD who showed varied, representative behavioral responses to their emotional dysregulation.
Both users were able to employ effective, customized emotional self-regulation strategies by means
of the system, recovering from the majority of mild stress episodes and temper tantrums experienced
in the nine days of experiment in their classroomThis work has been partially funded by the projects âe-Training y e-Coaching para la
integraciĂłn socioâlaboralâ (TIN2013-44586-R) and âeMadrid-CM: InvestigaciĂłn y Desarrollo de TecnologĂas Educativas en la Comunidad de Madridâ (S2013/ICE-2715). It has been also funded by FundaciĂłn Orange during the early stages of the project âTic-Tac-TEA: Sistema de asistencia para la autorregulaciĂłn emocional en momentos
de crisis para personas con TEA mediante smartwatches
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