scholarly journals Influence of Design Elements in Mobile Applications on User Experience of Elderly People

2017 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 352-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khan Kalimullah ◽  
Donthula Sushmitha
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Design Elements

scholarly journals Potential and effects of personalizing gameful fitness applications using behavior change intentions and Hexad user types

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Altmeyer ◽  
Pascal Lessel ◽  
Subhashini Jantwal ◽  
Linda Muller ◽  
Florian Daiber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Study Support ◽  
Affective Experiences ◽  
Relevant Domain

AbstractPersonalizing gameful applications is essential to account for interpersonal differences in the perception of gameful design elements. Considering that an increasing number of people lead sedentary lifestyles, using personalized gameful applications to encourage physical activity is a particularly relevant domain. In this article, we investigate behavior change intentions and Hexad user types as factors to personalize gameful fitness applications. We first explored the potential of these two factors by analyzing differences in the perceived persuasiveness of gameful design elements using a storyboards-based online study ($$N=178$$ N = 178 ). Our results show several significant effects regarding both factors and thus support the usefulness of them in explaining perceptual differences. Based on these findings, we implemented “Endless Universe,” a personalized gameful application encouraging physical activity on a treadmill. We used the system in a laboratory study ($$N=20$$ N = 20 ) to study actual effects of personalization on the users’ performance, enjoyment and affective experiences. While we did not find effects on the immediate performance of users, positive effects on user experience-related measures were found. The results of this study support the relevance of behavior change intentions and Hexad user types for personalizing gameful fitness systems further.

scholarly journals Investigating the Finnish Elderly People’s Attitudes and Motivation towards Digital Game-Based Physical Exercises

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aung Pyae ◽  
Tapani N. Liukkonen ◽  
Luimula Mika ◽  
Christina Kattimeri ◽  
Veroline Cauberghe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Digital Game ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Physical Exercises ◽  
People’S Attitudes

Attitudes and motivation towards physical exercises play a vital role for elderly people’s adherence to exercise. In recent years, digital games have been used to enhance elderly people’s experiences in physical exercises. However, there is a limited number of studies regarding elderly people’s attitudes and motivation towards digital game-based exercises. In this study, we aim at investigating the Finnish elderly people’s attitudes towards physical and digital game-based exercises, as well as their motivation in the gameplay. Furthermore, we intend to investigate if digital games can be an alternative way of exercising for elderly people. We conducted a user experience test of the “Skiing Game” with 21 elderly participants in Finland. We applied both qualitative (e.g. interview) and quantitative (e.g. questionnaires) methods to collect data from the participants. Then, we analyzed the data by using SPSS and Nvivo. The findings show that the Finnish elderly people’s attitudes towards physical exercises are more positive than digital game-based exercises. However, their attitudes towards digital games have become more positive after the gameplay. Their in-game and post-game user experiences were moderately positive. Their motivation to play digital game-based exercises was moderately high after the gameplay. Their feedback towards the Skiing game was positive. They recommend that digital game-based exercises can be an effective way of exercising. Based on these findings, we recommend that digital games are promising to be used as an alternative way of exercising for the Finnish elderly people. The discussion in this study can help researchers gain insights about using digital games for promoting elderly people’s participation in physical exercises.

scholarly journals QDroid: Mobile Application Quality Analyzer for App Market Curators

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jemin Lee ◽  
Hyungshin Kim
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Quality Analysis ◽  
Resource Usage ◽  
Source Codes ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Quality Analyzer ◽  
Manual Review

Low quality mobile applications have damaged the user experience. However, in light of the number of applications, quality analysis is a daunting task. For that reason, QDroid is proposed, an automated quality analyzer that detects the presence of crashes, excessive resource usage, and compatibility problems, without source codes and human involvement. QDroid was applied to 67 applications for evaluation and discovered 78% more crashes and attained 23% higher Activity coverage than Monkey testing. For detecting excessive resource usage and compatibility problems, QDroid reduced the number of applications that required manual review by up to 96% and 69%, respectively.

Usability of mobile applications: A Concept Analysis to be used in health promotion (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Po-Jen Kung ◽  
Ching-Min Chen
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Concept Analysis ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Model Case ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Definition Of

BACKGROUND Following the rise of health awareness in modern societies, health promotion has attracted progressively more attention in both academia and industry. This, along with the evolution of information and communication technologies, has resulted in the development of several mobile applications used in health promotion. Unfortunately, users of the applications have not achieved their goals, since many applications have not provided a smooth user experience. OBJECTIVE To clearly identify the defining attributes of mobile app usability in the context of health promotion in order to guide the design of apps which provide smooth user experience. METHODS It is thus first necessary to conduct an exploration into app usability, for which this study applies the concept analysis method by Walker and Avant, which includes: (1) identifying the use of the concept, (2) determining the defining attributes, (3) constructing a model case, (4) constructing model, contrary, borderline, and related cases, (5) identifying antecedents and consequences, and (6) defining empirical referents. RESULTS We then derive a unified definition of usability from the healthcare perspective—that the defining attributes of "usability of mobile application" are: efficiency, user satisfaction, and learnability. CONCLUSIONS It is concluded that mobile applications with these attributes could achieve their designed goals and reach maximal efficacy, since users would continue using the app on a regular basis, and would recommend it to others.

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