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Children’s Interaction with Mobile Touch-Screen Devices: Experiences and Guidelines for Design

Children’s Interaction with Mobile Touch-Screen Devices: Experiences and Guidelines for Design

Lorna McKnight, Brendan Cassidy
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466601949|ISBN10: 1466601949|EISBN13: 9781466601956
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0194-9.ch004
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McKnight, Lorna, and Brendan Cassidy. "Children’s Interaction with Mobile Touch-Screen Devices: Experiences and Guidelines for Design." Social and Organizational Impacts of Emerging Mobile Devices: Evaluating Use, edited by Joanna Lumsden, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 72-89. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0194-9.ch004

APA

McKnight, L. & Cassidy, B. (2012). Children’s Interaction with Mobile Touch-Screen Devices: Experiences and Guidelines for Design. In J. Lumsden (Ed.), Social and Organizational Impacts of Emerging Mobile Devices: Evaluating Use (pp. 72-89). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0194-9.ch004

Chicago

McKnight, Lorna, and Brendan Cassidy. "Children’s Interaction with Mobile Touch-Screen Devices: Experiences and Guidelines for Design." In Social and Organizational Impacts of Emerging Mobile Devices: Evaluating Use, edited by Joanna Lumsden, 72-89. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0194-9.ch004

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Abstract

In this article, the authors investigate the usability of mobile touch-screen devices for children. This is a growing area, and as such there is currently a lack of definitive guidelines for mobile device designers. This article reports two studies that investigated input methods for touch-screens with children aged 7-10, concentrating on the interaction between the child and the devices. In the first study, a range of devices were observed in use, in order to gather overall impressions of interaction styles and user experience. In the second study, a more controlled comparison between stylus and finger input is made. The article concludes by offering a set of general design guidelines for the design of mobile devices for children.

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