Design Considerations for Accessible Mobile Phones

Lee, Young Seok; Jhangiani, Ira; Smith‐Jackson, Tonya L.; Nussbaum, Maury A.; Tomioka, K.

doi:10.1037/e577722012-013

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“…These issues included hardware, software features and other additional advanced features required for cell phones. Product interactive focus groups are an efficient method previously used to generate product related discussions [22], [23], [24]. The focus group discussions were transcribed and further analyzed for similarities and differences in design preferences and user requirements across the 4 groups.…”

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Comparison of mobile phone user interface design preferences

Jhangiani

Smith‐Jackson

2007

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications, and Systems and the 1st International Sympo

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This research study explores cross-cultural differences and similarities of user preferences of mobile phone features. Product interactive focus groups were conducted in India and in the United States; groups included users without any apparent disabilities and users with a visual disability of legal blindness. The analysis of the focus group sessions and post-task usability questionnaires provided an insight to the preferences of mobile phone interface components and gave a deeper understanding of the mobile culture in the two countries. These results are summarized to provide guidelines for designing cross-cultural user interfaces which are nationality specific and disability specific. A pyramid model for a holistic process of designing cell phones for users with disabilities is proposed which integrated the findings of this study and Jordan's [1] pleasurability frameworkThe need for users participating in the design process has been realized, however, users with disabilities are not always included in the design process [4]. This study followed an inclusive design process, to compare and contrast the cell phone design preferences of users from two different countries, including users with no apparent disabilities and users with visual disabilities. This study was conducted to identify possible relationships between national culture, disability culture and design preferences of cell phone interfaces. The theoretical cultural framework used to guide this study was Hofstede's five dimensional cultural model [5].The globalization era that has lead to the exploration of cross-cultural design and the relationship of these cultural dimensions with interface design components has been established by several authors [6], [7].

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Section: Focus Group Discussion Sessionsmentioning

confidence: 99%