Touch screen user interfaces for older adults: Button size and spacing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4554 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 933-941

  Jin, Zhao Xia ^a   Piocher, Tom ^b   Kiff, Liana ^b  

^a HONEYWELL   (United States)

^b HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Older adults; Touch screen; Usability; User interface design

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

OLDER ADULTS; TOUCH SCREEN; USER INTERFACE DESIGNS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 38149025027     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73279-2_104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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