Learning to Drag: The Effects of Social Interactions in Touch Gestures Learnability for Older Adults
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Considering the potential physical limitations of older adults, the naturalness of touch-based gestures as an interaction method is questionable. Assuming touch-based gestures are natural, they should be highly learnable and amenable to enhancement through social interactions. To investigate whether social interactions can enhance the learnability of touch gestures for older adults with low digital literacy, we conducted a study with 42 technology- naïve participants aged 64 to 82. They were paired and encouraged to play two games on an interactive tabletop with the expectation to use the drag gesture to complete the games socially. We then compared these results with a previous study of technology-naïve older adults playing the same games individually. The results of the comparisons show that dyadic interactions had some benefits for the participants in helping them to become comfortable with the drag gesture by negotiation and imitation. Further qualitative analysis suggested that playing pairs generally helped learners to comfortably explore the digital environment using the newly acquired skill.
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Collaboration has been suggested as an example of social support during learning.
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Older adults learning feature-rich software has generally been understudied.
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Baghestani, A., Latulipe, C., & Bunt, A. (2024) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/3637378 · Cited by 7 · see citing works
- Authors
- Mihajlov, M., Springett, M., & Lai-Chong Law, E.
- Affiliations
- Jožef Stefan Institute (SI)
- Middlesex University London (GB)
- University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2019-11-10
- Pages
- 205-215
- OpenAlex
- W2984476012
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 3.41
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) (publishedVersion)
- Middlesex University Research Repository (Middlesex University Of London) (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Erasmus+ (2016-1-UK01KA204-024508)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Interactive and Immersive Displays
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
- Keywords
- touch gestures, older adults, social interaction, digital literacy, dyadic interaction, imitation, negotiation, tabletop games, physical limitations
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