Abstract
We studied how senior citizens write and send text messages on their own mobile phone and two touchscreen smartphones. Each participant participated in three training sessions and wrote messages with three phones. We found that the range of text entry performance among seniors is large. Average text entry rate in entering a 34 character test phrase was only 3.5 wpm. Further work to improve text messaging user interfaces for older un-skilled users is clearly needed. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the NordiCHI 2014: The 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Pages | 967-970 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 1-59593-036-1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Publication type | A4 Article in conference proceedings |
| Event | 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2014 - Duration: 1 Jan 2014 → … |
Conference
| Conference | 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2014 |
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| Period | 1/01/14 → … |
Keywords
- Learning
- Mobile phone
- Older adult
- Text messaging
- Touchscreen
Publication forum classification
- Publication forum level 1