Learning to Drag: The Effects of Social Interactions in Touch Gestures Learnability for Older Adults

Mihajlov, Martin; Springett, Mark; Law, Effie Lai‐Chong

doi:10.1145/3343055.3359716

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“…They might therefore be perceived as mean to address the need for a translucent system. Even gestures, which are understood as known by a large part of the population, such as dragging objects on a touchscreen, are not guaranteed to be understood by all users, as shown for elderly users by Mihajlov et al [41]. The particular request of controllers might not just be related to problems with executing gestures correctly but also with effects like haptic uncanny valley [42], i.e., that the haptic sense often still is excluded from the experience, while being important for human perception.…”

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MR On-SeT: A Mixed Reality Occupational Health and Safety Training for World-Wide Distribution

Rauh

Koller

Schäfer

et al. 2021

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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The current generation of dedicated Mixed Reality (MR) devices can be considered as the first generation, which is truly mobile while also being capable of sufficient tracking and rendering. These improvements offer new opportunities for the on-set use of MR devices enabling new ways of using MR. However, these new use cases raise challenges for the design and orchestration of MR applications as well as how these new technologies influence their field of application. In this paper, we present MR On-SeT, a MR occupational health and safety training application, which is based on the experiences of an operational division of a world-wide operating German company. The intended purpose of MR On-SeT is to increase employees’ awareness of potential hazards at industrial workplaces by using it in occupational health and safety training sessions. Since the application is used at various locations throughout the company’s world-wide subsidiaries, we were able to evaluate it through an expert survey with the occupational health and safety managers of seven plants in France, Germany, Japan, and Romania. They reported the condensed experience of around 540 training sessions collected within three months. The purpose of the evaluation was twofold: 1. to understand their perceived attitudes towards the application-in-use, and 2. to collect feedback they received from respondents in training sessions. The results suggest that MR On-SeT can be used to extend current, predominantly theoretical, methods of teaching occupational health and safety at work, which also motivates existing employees to actively engage in the training sessions. Based on the findings, several further design implications are proposed.

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confidence: 99%

MR On-SeT: A Mixed Reality Occupational Health and Safety Training for World-Wide Distribution

Rauh

Koller

Schäfer

et al. 2021

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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“…Often mentioned in conjunction or synonymously with learnability is discoverability [8,15,21]. The term 'discoverability' in the context of usability and human-computer interaction was popularised by Norman [26], who describes it through the following question:…”

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Improving the Discoverability of Interactions in Interactive Systems

Mackamul

2022

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

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In an ever increasingly complex technological landscape, interaction methods need to support users in their own discovery. This is exacerbated by a general aversion to instruction manuals and a trend towards invisible controls. Consequently, a lack of support for awareness or recognition of interaction possibilities leads to inefficient usage or complete disregard of the system. However, despite standard work imploring that users should be able to "figure out what actions are possible and where and how to perform them", this problem is rarely considered in the introduction of new interaction methods. My doctoral research is focused on improving the discovery of interaction possibilities. To do so I am combining a theoretical approach, focused on identifying, defining and framing relevant considerations with a practical approach to validate those theoretical considerations and identify and formulate actionable improvement methods for researchers and designers. In the process I hope to highlight the importance of discoverability to the research community and advocate for its increased consideration.

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“…The main motivation for this work was to study the dynamics of peer-to-peer interaction and the role of mentoring during introductory game-based learning of digital skills. Our previous work showed that older citizens can rapidly acquire core skills playing simple games on a touch table [2,3].…”

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An analysis of social interaction between novice older adults when learning gesture-based skills through simple digital games

Springett

Mihajlov

Brzovska

et al. 2021

Univ Access Inf Soc

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This paper reports three exploratory empirical studies with older adults that had little or no prior experience with interactive technologies. The participants were introduced to interactive technology by playing games on touchscreens, playing in pairs with the assistance of a mentor. We focus on two principle aspects, the peer-to-peer interaction during these sessions, and the role of the mentor in progressing the sessions. In the case of peer-to-peer interaction we looked for ways in which players supported each other during interaction to assess the role of peer interaction in this context. In the case of mentoring, we examined the efficacy of a minimalist approach where verbal encouragement, suggestions or (in the last resort) intervention are used to provide support to learners. The sessions showed that learners typically could play and learn basic manipulations independently after initial help and guidance from mentors. We also found that peer interaction, both in verbal and non-verbal communication and cooperative action was broadly a positive influence within sessions, suggesting that there is a significant value in building confidence as well as in learning.

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Learning to Drag: The Effects of Social Interactions in Touch Gestures Learnability for Older Adults

Cited by 3 publications

References 55 publications

MR On-SeT: A Mixed Reality Occupational Health and Safety Training for World-Wide Distribution

MR On-SeT: A Mixed Reality Occupational Health and Safety Training for World-Wide Distribution

Improving the Discoverability of Interactions in Interactive Systems

An analysis of social interaction between novice older adults when learning gesture-based skills through simple digital games

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