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Examining the Usability of Touch Screen Gestures for Elderly People

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Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2016)

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This paper presents an experimental study to assess the capabilities of older adults to interact with multi-touch surfaces. The study involved 100 elderly people between 61–92 years old. We selected two different elderly centres in Madrid, with different characteristics in terms of income level. The “Gesture Games” tool was used because it allows experimenting with the seven more used multi-touch gestures: Tap, Double tap, Long press, Drag, Scale up, Scale down and One-finger rotation. The analysis of the data showed that older adults have total capacity to execute these seven tasks. Some of the tasks, such as “scale down” and “scale up” were found easier for them, while other tasks, such as “double tap” were more difficult.

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  1. CETTICO Research Group, ETSIINF, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Doris Cáliz & Loic Martínez

  2. Department of Computer Science, Autonomous University of Madrid, C/Francisco Tomás y Valiente, 11, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    Xavier Alamán

  3. FIS Group, Departamento de Informática y Ciencias de la Computación (DICC). EPN, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ladrón de Guevara E11-25 y, Andalucía, Quito, Ecuador

    Richart Cáliz & Carlos Terán

  4. Datos Análisis Estadístico. Análisis de datos, Allcuquiro 2-75 y, Paseo de los Cañaris, Cuenca, Ecuador

    Verónica Peñafiel

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  1. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

    Carmelo R. García

  2. Departamento de Estadistica, Universidad La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain

    Pino Caballero-Gil

  3. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

    Mike Burmester

  4. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

    Alexis Quesada-Arencibia

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Cáliz, D., Alamán, X., Martínez, L., Cáliz, R., Terán, C., Peñafiel, V. (2016). Examining the Usability of Touch Screen Gestures for Elderly People. In: García, C., Caballero-Gil, P., Burmester, M., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. UCAmI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10069. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48746-5_43

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