Interface metaphor design and instant messaging for older adults

Prior, Suzanne; Arnott, John L.; Dickinson, Anna

doi:10.1145/1358628.1358924

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“…• An alternative interface for Instant Messaging designed to meet the needs of older adults was designed and tested [27]. The alternative interface used a metaphor design for ease of use and was successfully tested with older adults.…”

Section: The Second Offering Aspects Of Assistive Technology and Augmentioning

confidence: 99%

Including accessibility within and beyond undergraduate computing courses

Waller

Hanson

Sloan

2009

Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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This paper presents a unique approach to undergraduate teaching in which accessibility topics are completely integrated throughout the curriculum, treating accessibility not as a separate topic, but rather as an integral part of design and development. Means of accomplishing this integration throughout the entire four-year curriculum are presented. We also describe how our expertise in accessible design has extended beyond the education of computer science and engineering students to include Web content authors across campus.

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Section: The Second Offering Aspects Of Assistive Technology and Augmentioning

confidence: 99%

Including accessibility within and beyond undergraduate computing courses

Waller

Hanson

Sloan

2009

Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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“…These changes can require users to learn new interactions, something that can be easier for some users than others and can be a particular challenge for older users. This has led many comparative studies between older adults, typically classed as older than 65 years of age, and younger generations [24][25][26][27][28][29].…”

Section: Interfaces For Older Adultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These participants were all born before 1953, so each was over 65 years of age. The literature review has stated about the potential challenges that can be faced about the individuality of older adults as they age-that is, that specific older users or groups of older users may have different requirements that other older user groups [24][25][26][27][28][29]. As such, these interviews are vital to allow us to establish the experience and needs of our specific group of older users [37].…”

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Can Skeuomorphic Design Provide a Better Online Banking User Experience for Older Adults?

Ellis

Marshall

2019

MTI

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With the prevalence of digital technologies and internet connectivity, combined with the reduction in footfall on high streets, banks have taken steps to move most of their customer base online. This has left many older adults behind, trying to keep up with the changes and having to learn to use sometimes complex online banking interfaces. In this work we investigate whether skeuomorphic design can create a more usable online banking system for older adults, compared to the more commonplace flat design. This work took a user-centered approach, beginning with interviews with older adults that were conducted to gather data to be used in the production of prototype user interfaces. Two prototypes were then created: a flat user interface and a skeuomorphic one. We evaluated these interfaces with 15 older adults, gathering a combination of data, including data from the System Usability Scale, observations, and interviews. Results of the experiments showed that our older users preferred the flat prototype to the skeuomorphic one, but raised some potentially useful guidelines for the design of future skeuomorphic user interfaces for older adults. A validation experiment with 17 younger adults (aged 20–25) also showed that the skeuomorphic interface was more usable for older adults than younger ones.

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“…Focusing on the interface, the study [36] proposes an adaptation of the chat's interface for being used by older adults which includes a user representation using more lifelike characters. From the point of view of cognitive disabilities, the Messenger Visual supports pictogram-based communications [37].…”

Section: Existing Solutions In Chatsmentioning

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Accessible chats for computer supported collaborative learning environments in mobile devices: Doctoral consortium paper

Calvo

2013

IEEE 7th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)

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Abstract:The use of chats in Mobile Devices (MD) for learning environments is being increased in the last decade. However, they present many accessibility barriers that prevent people from using them. As a result, some people do not have the same opportunities to learn. This research aims to solve the accessibility barriers of chats in learning environments for its use in MDs. Thus, this paper presents the proposal of an model-based design and the strategy development process to create an accessible chat.

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Interface metaphor design and instant messaging for older adults

Cited by 16 publications

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Including accessibility within and beyond undergraduate computing courses

Including accessibility within and beyond undergraduate computing courses

Can Skeuomorphic Design Provide a Better Online Banking User Experience for Older Adults?

Accessible chats for computer supported collaborative learning environments in mobile devices: Doctoral consortium paper

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