Presentation 2016-12-15
A Study of the Effect of Mobile Device Size to Usability in Touch Interface
Ryo Yamazaki, Tetsuya Watanabe,
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Abstract(in English) Blind people depend on only audio feedback when they use touch interfaces such as smartphones. The size of mobile devices that is suitable for touchscreen manipulation has been not clear. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of mobile device size on non-visual exploration of icons in touch interface. We conducted an experiment in which participants explored the icons on the touchscreen with four different screen sizes. We analyzed the time taken to complete the exploration, the exploration strategies and the subjective evaluations. As the result, mobile devices with the screen size of 4.7 inch produced the shortest exploration time and obtained the highest subjective evaluation among four devices.
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Keyword(in English) Blind People / Touch Interface / User Interface / Screen Reader
Paper # WIT2016-61
Date of Issue 2016-12-07 (WIT)

Conference Information
Committee WIT / HI-SIGACI
Conference Date 2016/12/14(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) AIST Tokyo Waterfront
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Well-being Information Technology, etc. (tentative)
Chair Kiyohiko Nunokawa(Tokyo International Univ.)
Vice Chair Chikamune Wada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Chikamune Wada(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / (AIST)
Assistant Tomohiro Amemiya(NTT) / Takeaki Shionome(Tohoku Bunka Gakuen Univ.) / Manabi Miyagi(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Takashi Handa(Saitama Industrial Technology Center)

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Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) A Study of the Effect of Mobile Device Size to Usability in Touch Interface
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Blind People
Keyword(2) Touch Interface
Keyword(3) User Interface
Keyword(4) Screen Reader
1st Author's Name Ryo Yamazaki
1st Author's Affiliation Niigata University(Nigata Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Tetsuya Watanabe
2nd Author's Affiliation Niigata University(Nigata Univ.)
Date 2016-12-15
Paper # WIT2016-61
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) WIT-360
Page pp.pp.111-115(WIT),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2016-12-07 (WIT)