Rethinking Mobile Interfaces for Older Adults
SIG Meetings
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Charness, Neil
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Dunlop, Mark
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Munteanu, Cosmin
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Nicol, Emma
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Oulasvirta, Antti
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Ren, Xiangshi
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Sarcar, Sayan
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Silpasuwanchai, Chaklam
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.1131-1134
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: This SIG advances the study of mobile user interfaces for the aging
population. The topic is timely, as the mobile device has become the most
widely used computer terminal and at the same time the number of older people
will soon exceed the number of children worldwide. However, most HCI research
addresses younger adults and has had little impact on older adults. Some design
trends, like the mantra "smaller is smarter", contradict the needs of older
users. Developments like this may diminish their ability to access information
and participate in society. This can lead to further isolation (social and
physical) of older adults and increased widening of the digital divide. This
SIG aims to discuss mobile interfaces for older adults. The SIG has three
goals: (i) to map the state-of-art, (ii) to build a community gathering experts
from related areas, and (iii) to raise awareness within the SIGCHI community.
The SIG will be open to all at CHI.
Shake 'n' Tap: a gesture enhanced keyboard for older adults
Poster Presentations
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Dunlop, Mark
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Komninos, Andreas
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Nicol, Emma
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Hamiliton, Iain
Proceedings of 2014 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile
Devices and Services
2014-09-23
p.525-530
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Summary: The need for text entry on smartphones and other touch-screen devices is key
for many tasks and also a key factor in the usability of these devices.
Physical and cognitive issues associated with age can aggravate the task of
text entry for older adults. Technological exclusion due to low usability can
present a significant problem both for social and ongoing business-related
tasks with older adults. This paper investigates a new touch-screen keyboard
design for older adults that combines the familiar QWERTY keyboard layout with
physical gesture. User studies with older adults showed our keyboard reduced
miss-taps, but was slower to use, and raised issues for further research.
Re-imagining commonly used mobile interfaces for older adults
Workshop summaries
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Nicol, Emma
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Dunlop, Mark
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Komninos, Andreas
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McGee-Lennon, Marilyn
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Baillie, Lynne
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Edwards, Alistair
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Eslambolchilar, Parisa
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Goodman-Deane, Joy
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Hakobyan, Lilit
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Lumsden, Jo
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Mulder, Ingrid
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Rau, Patrick
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Siek, Katie
Proceedings of 2014 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile
Devices and Services
2014-09-23
p.585-588
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Summary: Many countries have an increasingly aging population. In recent years,
mobile technologies have had a massive impact on social and working lives. As
the size of the older user population rises, many people will want to continue
professional, social and lifestyle usage of mobiles into 70s and beyond. Mobile
technologies can lead to increased community involvement and personal
independence. While mobile technologies can provide many opportunities, the
aging process can interfere with their use. This workshop brings together
researchers who are re-imagining common mobile interfaces so that they are more
suited to use by older adults.
Using artefacts to investigate children's information seeking experiences
Short papers
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Nicol, Emma
Proceedings of the 2014 Symposium on Information Interaction in Context
2014-08-26
p.291-294
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Summary: Pieces of work or "artefacts" produced by children in the form of posters
were used in a semi-structured interview to gain insights into children's
experience of information seeking in a classroom setting. By referring to
information on the poster, children were able to articulate their perceptions
of the task, evaluate their success in completing it and reveal which aspects
of the task they preferred doing. They were able to say where, and in some
cases how information had been found but were generally less able to explain
why they had chosen particular pieces of information. The paper concludes that
artefacts such as posters can provide a useful entry point for interviewing
children about their information behaviour, avoiding some of the known
challenges in this.
Using children's drawings to elicit feedback on interactive museum
prototypes
Short papers
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Nicol, Emma
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Hornecker, Eva
Proceedings of ACM IDC'12: Interaction Design and Children
2012-06-12
p.276-279
© Copyright 2012 ACM
Summary: In this paper we describe our experience of designing and running a user
evaluation of early prototypes of digital installations prior to their
deployment in a new national heritage museum. Children, their parents, siblings
and friends were invited to participate in the study, We focus on the
effectiveness of using children's drawings to elicit responses from the child
participants. Drawings provided us with insight into children's experience of
the installations. Moreover, they proved a useful entry point for interviewing
young children, avoiding some of the known challenges in this.
What do lab-based user studies tell us about in-the-wild behavior?: insights
from a study of museum interactives
Paradigm clash
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Hornecker, Eva
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Nicol, Emma
Proceedings of DIS'12: Designing Interactive Systems
2012-06-11
p.358-367
© Copyright 2012 ACM
Summary: We contribute to an understanding of how well lab-based user studies can
help us to anticipate how a system will be used in 'the wild'. We analyze and
compare data from lab-based user studies of prototype museum installations and
the subsequent deployment of these systems in a museum. While the user study
was successful in identifying usability issues, social behavior patterns in the
museum, in particular between caregivers and children, differed in several
aspects between the settings. Our analysis highlights influences on usage and
behavior patterns: the physical and structural setup, the user study creating a
focused activity, and the demand characteristics of a user study.
Intra-assessor consistency in question answering
Posters
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Ruthven, Ian
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Glasgow, Leif Azzopardi
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Baillie, Mark
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Bierig, Ralf
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Nicol, Emma
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Sweeney, Simon
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Yakici, Murat
Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval
2007-07-23
p.727-728
© Copyright 2007 ACM
Summary: In this paper we investigate the consistency of answer assessment in a
complex question answering task examining features of assessor consistency,
types of answers and question type.
