Authors : Naim Che Pee, Azir Rezha Norizan, Zulisman Maksom, Hamzah Asyrani Sulaiman, Mohd Fairuz Iskandar Othman, Yahaya Abd Rahim and Mohd Azlishah Othman
Abstract: Smartphones and Tablet devices have been rapidly proliferating and multi-touch interaction, powerful processors and rich array of sensors make these devices an attractive service platform for older users. While there is an increasing number of work investigating the issues that elderly users experience through their interaction with mobile devices. The study tried to look at how the interaction and error rates faced by elderly users in carrying out daily tasks using smart phones. The methods used in this study are task evaluation, observation and interview where 60 elderly volunteers age 60’s were given current smart phone technology. Each participant was observed while instructed to do sets of daily tasks. Number of interaction and rate of error for each task were recorded and interviews conducted to identify any kind of difficulties encountered while performing tasks. Based on our results, we summarize the types of issues observed and data analyzed, present design considerations for the applications studied and future research directions.
Naim Che Pee, Azir Rezha Norizan, Zulisman Maksom, Hamzah Asyrani Sulaiman, Mohd Fairuz Iskandar Othman, Yahaya Abd Rahim and Mohd Azlishah Othman, 2019. Study of Elderly Interaction with Smartphone Interface-Rate of Interaction and Error. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 14: 10555-10559.