Mobile User Interaction Development for Low-Literacy Trends and Recurrent Design Problems: A Perspective from Designers in Developing Country

2016 ◽  
pp. 409-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elefelious G. Belay ◽  
D. Scott McCrickard ◽  
Solomon A. Besufekad
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Mobile User ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Design Problems

A Conceptual Framework for Interoperability of Mobile User Interfaces with Ambient Computing Environments

2012 ◽  
pp. 200-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Mobile User ◽  
Input Device ◽  
Input Devices ◽  
Interaction Styles ◽  
Application Logic ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Ambient Computing

The use of mobile and hand-held devices is a desirable option for implementation of user interaction with remote services from a distance, whereby the user should be able to select the input device depending on personal preferences, capabilities and availability of interaction devices. Because of the heterogeneity of available devices and interaction styles, the interoperability needs particular attention by the developer. This paper describes the design of a general solution to enable mobile devices to have control on services at remote hosts. The applied approach enhances the idea of separating the user interface from the application logic, leading to the definition of virtual or logical input devices physically separated from the controlled services.

scholarly journals Developmental inventories using illiterate parents as informants: Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) adaptation for two Kenyan languages

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. J. ALCOCK ◽  
K. RIMBA ◽  
P. HOLDING ◽  
P. KITSAO-WEKULO ◽  
A. ABUBAKAR ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Helpful Tool ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Interview Format

AbstractCommunicative Development Inventories (CDIs, parent-completed language development checklists) are a helpful tool to assess language in children who are unused to interaction with unfamiliar adults. Generally, CDIs are completed in written form, but in developing country settings parents may have insufficient literacy to complete them alone. We designed CDIs to assess language development in children aged 0;8 to 2;4 in two languages used in Coastal communities in Kenya. Measures of vocabulary, gestures, and grammatical constructions were developed using both interviews with parents from varying backgrounds, and vocabulary as well as grammatical constructions from recordings of children's spontaneous speech. The CDIs were then administered in interview format to over 300 families. Reliability and validity ranged from acceptable to excellent, supporting the use of CDIs when direct language testing is impractical, even when children have multiple caregivers and where respondents have low literacy levels.

On the Detection of Structural Aesthetic Defects of Android Mobile User Interfaces with a Metrics-based Tool

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Narjes Bessghaier ◽  
Makram Soui ◽  
Christophe Kolski ◽  
Mabrouka Chouchane
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Mobile User ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Detection Tool ◽  
Detection Rule ◽  
Iterative Evaluation

Smartphone users are striving for easy-to-learn and use mobile apps user interfaces. Accomplishing these qualities demands an iterative evaluation of the Mobile User Interface (MUI). Several studies stress the value of providing a MUI with a pleasing look and feel to engaging end-users. The MUI, therefore, needs to be free from all kinds of structural aesthetic defects. Such defects are indicators of poor design decisions interfering with the consistency of a MUI and making it more difficult to use. To this end, we are proposing a tool (Aesthetic Defects DEtection Tool (ADDET)) to determine the structural aesthetic dimension of MUIs. Automating this process is useful to designers in evaluating the quality of their designs. Our approach is composed of two modules. (1) Metrics assessment is based on the static analysis of a tree-structured layout of the MUI. We used 15 geometric metrics (also known as structural or aesthetic metrics) to check various structural properties before a defect is triggered. (2) Defects detection: The manual combination of metrics and defects are time-consuming and user-dependent when determining a detection rule. Thus, we perceive the process of identification of defects as an optimization problem. We aim to automatically combine the metrics related to a particular defect and optimize the accuracy of the rules created by assigning a weight, representing the metric importance in detecting a defect. We conducted a quantitative and qualitative analysis to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed tool in computing metrics and detecting defects. The findings affirm the tool’s reliability when assessing a MUI’s structural design problems with 71% accuracy.

VIDEO PROCESSING AND UNDERSTANDING TOOLS FOR AUGMENTED MULTISENSOR PERCEPTION AND MOBILE USER INTERACTION IN SMART SPACES

2005 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 679-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUCA MARCHESOTTI ◽  
CARLO REGAZZONI ◽  
CARLO BONAMICO ◽  
FABIO LAVAGETTO
Keyword(s):  
Video Processing ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
User Profile ◽  
Mobile User ◽  
Virtual Character ◽  
Video Information ◽  
Closing The Loop ◽  
Space Architecture ◽  
System Prototype

In this paper, a complete Smart Space architecture and related system prototype are presented. The system is able to analyze situations of interest in a given environment and to produce related contextual information. Experimental results show that video information plays a major role for what concerns both situation perception and personalized contex-aware communications. For this reason, the poropsed multisensor system automatically extracts information from multiple cameras as well as diverse sensors describing environment status. This information is then used to trigger personalized and context-aware video messages adaptively sent to users. A rule-based module is encharged to customize video messages in relation to the user profile, contextual situation and users's terminal. The systems outputs graphically generated video messages consisting of an animated avatar (i.e. Virtual Character) closing the loop on users. Proposed results validate the conceptual schema behind the architecture and the successful adaption to the analysis of different situations.

A Conceptual Framework for Interoperability of Mobile User Interfaces with Ambient Computing Environments

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Mobile User ◽  
Input Device ◽  
Input Devices ◽  
Interaction Styles ◽  
Application Logic ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Ambient Computing

The use of mobile and hand-held devices is a desirable option for implementation of user interaction with remote services from a distance, whereby the user should be able to select the input device depending on personal preferences, capabilities and availability of interaction devices. Because of the heterogeneity of available devices and interaction styles, the interoperability needs particular attention by the developer. This paper describes the design of a general solution to enable mobile devices to have control on services at remote hosts. The applied approach enhances the idea of separating the user interface from the application logic, leading to the definition of virtual or logical input devices physically separated from the controlled services.

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