Challenges of situational impairments during interaction with mobile devices

Sarsenbayeva, Zhanna; Berkel, Niels van; Luo, Chu; Kostakos, Vassilis; Gonçalves, Jorge

doi:10.1145/3152771.3156161

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“…Previous research has shown that interaction with mobile devices can be adversely aected by implicit environmental and contextual factors, subjecting the user to what is known as a situational impairment [46,49]. A number of causes for situational impairment have been studied within the HCI/UbiComp community, including the eects of ambient temperature [17,45], motion [14], and encumbrance [37,38].…”

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Effect of Distinct Ambient Noise Types on Mobile Interaction

Sarsenbayeva

Berkel

Velloso

et al. 2018

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.

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The adverse eect of ambient noise on humans has been extensively studied in elds like cognitive science, indicating a signicant impact on cognitive performance, behaviour, and emotional state. Surprisingly, the eect of ambient noise has not been studied in the context of mobile interaction. As smartphones are ubiquitous by design, smartphone users are exposed to a wide variety of ambient noises while interacting with their devices. In this paper, we present a structured analysis of the eect of six distinct ambient noise types on typical smartphone usage tasks. The evaluated ambient noise types include variants of music, urban noise and speech. We analyse task completion time and errors, and nd that dierent ambient noises aect users dierently. For example, while speech and urban noise slow down text entry, being exposed to music reduces completion time in target acquisition tasks. Our study contributes to the growing research area on situational impairments, and we compare our results to previous work on the eect of cold-induced situational impairments. Our results can be used to support smartphone users through adaptive interfaces which respond to the ongoing context of the user. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI; • Human-centered computing → Ubiquitous and mobile computing; • Human-centered computing → Smartphones;

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“…In this paper we investigate the eects of one such situational impairment on mobile interaction that remains relatively underexplored [46]-ambient noise. Ambient noise is dened as any noise the user is exposed to while their attention is directed at some task or activity [25].…”

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Effect of Distinct Ambient Noise Types on Mobile Interaction

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Velloso

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Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.

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“…Compared to accessibility, less is known about particular situational impairments, such as SVIs, and what design guidelines are required [46]. Previous work has demonstrated the limitations imposed by hardware (e.g., screen technology [18]).…”

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“…If screen brightness is reduced to conserve power, a similar problem to viewing a screen in a bright environment occurs. Sarsenbayeva et al [46] indicates there is limited research looking into ambient light SVIs and suggests autobrightness may be why few studies on SVIs exist. More research is required to fully understand the factors involved and the frequency of experiencing SVIs.…”

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Designing for Situational Visual Impairments

Tigwell

Menzies

Flatla

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Mobile devices are a substantial part of our lives, supporting communication, work, and play. However, situational visual impairments (SVIs) can make completing tasks a challenge (e.g., browsing online in bright sunlight) and poorly designed content can cause or exacerbate SVIs. We surveyed 43 mobile content designers and ran four follow-on interviews to understand what designers currently do regarding SVIs, what resources they know of, and what is required to best support them in designing to reduce SVIs. Our findings highlight key similarities and differences between accessibility and designing to reduce SVIs. Our participants requested improved guidelines, education, and digital design tools for SVIs. To accommodate the growing number of people affected by SVIs and improve the inclusion of accessibility in design, we introduce recommendations that leverage the overlap between accessibility and SVIs to minimise the effort required in extending current design processes.

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“…This is even more pronounced if there is a existing disability. We still have a lot to understand regarding mobile device situational impairments [14], and in particular for severely Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored.…”

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BrightLights

Macpherson

Tigwell

Menzies

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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Situational visual impairments (SVIs) create accessibility challenges, which is an increasing problem with the popularity of mobile devices. We introduce BrightLights, a game to model the way in which content design affects the onset of SVIs. By using a game as a research tool, we can encourage a much larger number of people to take part. The data we receive will inform new design guidelines to support designers of mobile content in reducing SVIs. An initial evaluation with 15 participants showed that participants performed significantly worse under 0% screen-brightness compared to 50% and 100% screen-brightness. We outline the next steps we must take before our planned large-scale study.

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Challenges of situational impairments during interaction with mobile devices

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