A Preliminary Investigation into the Usability of Force Touch Interaction in a Mobile Context
Dublin Core
Title
A Preliminary Investigation into the Usability of Force Touch Interaction in a Mobile Context
Subject
Usability
Evaluation
Force touch
Touch based user interface
Universal design
smartphones
Description
This paper details a preliminary evaluation into the usability and universal design of force touch interaction with older users as recently introduced into the Apple iOS9 operating system. The evaluation involved a small group of older users and two typical smartphone tasks. The tasks involved increasing font size and rotating an image on an Apple iPhone with iOS9 installed. The study recorded task times and semi-structured interview responses. The overall results indicated that the new force touch feature can gain good acceptance from older users, but that there were some usability and universal design problems with the feature which hampered the potential of full acceptance by older users.
Creator
Murano, Pietro
Ali, Rao Muhammad Danial
Source
International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 12 No. 5 (2018); pp. 169-181
1865-7923
Publisher
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria
Date
2018-09-29
Rights
Copyright (c) 2018 Pietro Murano
Relation
Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Identifier
Citation
Pietro Murano and Rao Ali Muhammad Danial, A Preliminary Investigation into the Usability of Force Touch Interaction in a Mobile Context, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2018, accessed September 21, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/1359