Designing mobile interfaces for novice and low-literacy users

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Medhi, Indrani ^a   Patnaik, Somani ^b   Brunskill, Emma ^c   Gautama, S N Nagasena ^a   Thies, William ^a   Toyama, Kentaro ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data accuracy; Data entry; Illiteracy; Mobile banking; Mobile health

Indexed keywords

DATA ACCURACY; DATA ENTRY; ILLITERACY; MOBILE BANKING; MOBILE HEALTH;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 79955688388     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1959022.1959024     Document Type: Article

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