scholarly journals An Interactive, Bilingual Touch Screen Program to Promote Breastfeeding Among Hispanic Rural Women: Usability Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. e47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashish Joshi ◽  
Susan Wilhelm ◽  
Trina Aguirre ◽  
Kate Trout ◽  
Chioma Amadi
Author(s):  
Andrew Crossan ◽  
Roderick Murray-Smith ◽  
Stephen Brewster ◽  
Bojan Musizza

Instrumented usability analysis involves the use of sensors during a usability study which provide observations from which the evaluator can infer details of the context of use, specific activities, or disturbances. This is particularly useful for the evaluation of mobile and wearable devices which are currently difficult to test realistically without constraining users in unnatural ways. To illustrate the benefits of such an approach, a study of touch-screen selection of on-screen targets is presented whilst walking and sitting, using a PocketPC instrumented with an accelerometer. From the accelerometer data, the user’s gait behaviour is inferred, allowing linking performance to gait phase angle, showing there were phase regions with significantly lower error and variability. The chapter provides examples of how information acquired via sensors gives quantitatively measurable information about the detailed interactions taking place when mobile, allowing designers to test and revise design decisions, based on realistic user activity.


Author(s):  
Andrew Crossan ◽  
Roderick Murray-Smith ◽  
Stephen Brewster ◽  
Bojan Musizza

Instrumented usability analysis involves the use of sensors during a usability study which provide observations from which the evaluator can infer details of the context of use, specific activities or disturbances. This is particularly useful for the evaluation of mobile and wearable devices, which are currently difficult to test realistically without constraining users in unnatural ways. To illustrate the benefits of such an approach, we present a study of touch-screen selection of on-screen targets, whilst walking and sitting, using a PocketPC instrumented with an accelerometer. From the accelerometer data the user’s gait behaviour is inferred, allowing us to link performance to gait phase angle, showing there were phase regions with significantly lower error and variability. The article provides examples of how information acquired via sensors gives us quantitatively measurable information about the detailed interactions taking place when mobile, allowing designers to test and revise design decisions, based on realistic user activity.


2016 ◽  
Vol Volume 10 ◽  
pp. 2171-2179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Khurana ◽  
Ellen Durand ◽  
Sarah Gary ◽  
Antonio V Otero ◽  
Millie Gerzon ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.7) ◽  
pp. 984
Author(s):  
M Kameswara Rao ◽  
Dr S.G. Santhi ◽  
Dr Md.Ali Hussain

Gadgets outfitted with touch screens rule the present versatile market in view of high adaptability and great convenience. Numerous security applications keep running on such gadgets. For user verification recalling or recognizing a secret word is testing errand in touch screen based gadgets. A graphical based secret key is a standout amongst the most encouraging and upcoming option for touch based devices. As per research, human brain can recall pictures more effectively than content. In this paper we introduce a novel spin wheel based authentication system targeting the touch screen based versatile and handheld gadgets. The user needs to rotate a set of spin wheels to get authenticated .Usability Study was directed to investigate the ease of use and security of the proposed authentication mechanism.


2013 ◽  
Vol 441 ◽  
pp. 879-882
Author(s):  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Jing Gang Yi ◽  
Hai Yong Jiang ◽  
Jia Zhong Wang ◽  
Jiang Tao Liu

Steam control system of the steam scallop shelling machine is the key to ensure the stability and the continuous jet of steam during the process of scallop shell. This paper on the basic composition of steam generator, PLC, touch screen program design, several aspects of temperature sensor, pressure transmitter and so on. Through the transformation of the control system of steam generator, which can meet the design requirements of the task.


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