Elderly user evaluation of mobile touchscreen interactions

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

Volumn 6946 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 83-99

  Kobayashi, Masatomo ^a   Hiyama, Atsushi ^b   Miura, Takahiro ^c   Asakawa, Chieko ^a   Hirose, Michitaka ^b   Ifukube, Tohru ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Elderly; Gestures; Mobile; Senior Citizens; Smartphones; Touchscreens; User Evaluation

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY; GESTURES; MOBILE; SENIOR CITIZENS; SMARTPHONES; TOUCH SCREEN; USER EVALUATIONS;

AGING OF MATERIALS; USER INTERFACES; PRODUCT DESIGN; SMARTPHONES; TOUCH SCREENS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 80052815936     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23774-4_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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