Ability of children to perform touchscreen gestures and follow prompting techniques when using mobile apps

Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
Savita YadavAnchal Garg

Abstract

Nowadays, children get access to smartphones at an early age. However, their ability to use mobile apps has not yet been studied in detail. The purpose was to study the ability of children aged between two and eight years to perform touchscreen gestures and follow prompting techniques, i.e. ways used by apps to provide instructions on how to use them. We developed a mobile app to test the ability of children to perform various touchscreen gestures and another mobile app to test their ability to follow various prompting techniques. We used these apps to perform our experiment with 90 children in a kindergarten and a primary school in New Delhi in July 2019. We noted the touchscreen gestures that the children could perform and the most sophisticated prompting technique that they could follow. Two and three year old children could not follow any prompting technique and only a minority (27%) of them could tap the touchscreen at an intended place. Four to six year old children could perform simple gestures like tap and slide (57%), and follow instructions provided through animation (63%). Seven and eight year old children could perform more sophisticated gestures like drag and drop (30%), and follow instructions provided in audio an...Continue Reading

References

May 20, 2015·Psychological Science in the Public Interest : a Journal of the American Psychological Society·Kathy Hirsh-PasekJordy Kaufman
Feb 17, 2017·Korean journal of pediatrics·Chang Hoon LimSang Hee Park
Mar 9, 2017·Acta Paediatrica·Savita Yadav, Pinaki Chakraborty

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