Effects of age, thumb length and screen size on thumb movement coverage on smartphone touchscreens
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Users with fine motor disability had greater impulses and dwell time when touching buttons than nondisabled users.
“The users with fine motor disability had greater impulses and dwell time when touching buttons than nondisabled users.”
From Usability Studies on Mobile User Interface Design Patterns: A Systematic Literature Review (2017) · cites this paper as [55]
Touch characteristics were affected by the button size, but not spacing.
“The results showed that touch characteristics were affected by the button size, but not spacing.”
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Older users and users with longer thumbs are likely to leave unreached space around the bottom-right corner and bottom edge of the screen.
“Older users and users with longer thumbs were likely to leave unreached space around the bottomright corner and the bottom edge of the screen [101].”
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Thumb coverage area is influenced by users' thumb length and age.
“Thumb coverage area was also influenced by users' thumb length and their age.”
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Four factors impact accuracy of thumb-based interaction: key size, key location, thumb length, and user age.
“A few studies looked into designs for thumb-based interaction and found that there were four factors that impacted accuracy of thumb-based interaction: the size of the key, key location, thumb length, and user age [100,101].”
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- Authors
- Xiong, J., & Muraki, S.
- Affiliations
- Kyushu University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Xiong, Jinghong
- ORCID
- Muraki, Satoshi
- Venue
- International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-05
- Volume
- 53
- Pages
- 140-148
- ISSN
- 0169-8141 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2182183579
- Cited by
- 58
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 12.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Interactive and Immersive Displays
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
- Keywords
- thumb length, screen size, age differences, elderly users, hand posture
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