Browsing by Author "Ferreira, Simone Bacellar Leal"
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- Making mobile touch screens more usable using SUM metrics modelPublication . Bessa, Allan Telles; Ferreira, Simone Bacellar Leal; Alvim, Adriana Cesário de Faria; Cavalcante, Ney Wagner Freitas; Alves, Aline da SilvaCell phone interaction haschanged with the advent of touch screen and smartphones. Given this, designers find obstacles when trying to build interfaces able to cater to special users as well as the ordinary one. This present research aims for minimizing such obstacles by adopting usability and accessibility evaluations focused on the elderly in order to identify pros and cons of systems like Android, iOS and Windows Phone, as well as propose recommendations on these systems so as to make interaction easier and more pleasant for this group.This research involved 170 answers to a questionnaire about registration and use profiles. Twenty users took part in the experiment by testing the three systems mentioned above,and thenproduced a list of recommendations that made several this clear: each system has advantages that could be shared among each other’sfor the purpose of development and facilitation.