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Improving Pre-Kindergarten Touch Performance

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ITS '14: Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

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Multi-touch technology provides users with a more intuitive way of interaction. However, pre-kindergarten children, a growing group of potential users, have problems with some basic gestures according to previous studies. This is particularly the case of the double tap and long pressed gestures, which have some issues related to spurious entry events and time-constrained interactions, respectively. In this paper, we empirically test specific strategies to deal with these issues by evaluating off-the-shelf implementations of these gestures against alternative implementations that follow these guidelines. The study shows that the implementation of these design guidelines has a positive effect on success rates of these two gestures, being feasible their inclusion in future multi-touch applications targeted at pre-kindergarten children.

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November 2014

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ISBN:9781450325875

DOI:10.1145/2669485

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Queen's University, Canada
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University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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University of St. Andrews, UK

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