The evolution of number entry: a case study of the telephone

Eslambolchilar, Parisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4610-1643, Webster, Julie and Niezen, Gerrit 2013. The evolution of number entry: a case study of the telephone. Presented at: INTERACT 2013: IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Cape Town, South Africa, 2-6 September 2013. Published in: Kotze, Paula, Marsden, Gary, Lindgaard, Gitte, Wesson, Janet and Winckler, Marco eds. Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013: 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2-6, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). , vol.8118 Springer Link, pp. 538-545. 10.1007/978-3-642-40480-1_37

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Abstract

This paper details a user study to investigate serial digit entry on analogue and digital input platforms and the errors associated with them. We look specifically at the case of entering eleven-digit telephone numbers without a decimal point. The telephone is used as a platform for comparison, due to its clear evolution from a rotary dial to a pushbutton keypad and more recently, touch-based input. Thirty participants took part in a user study, which concluded that the touch interface was four times less accurate than the pushbutton and rotary dial interfaces. The latter two interfaces performed with similar accuracy; however, users were more than three times faster on the pushbutton keypad and recognized almost twice as many errors on the rotary dial. We have extended previous error taxonomies to include some errors relevant to sequences of numbers and built upon task-based guidelines found in the literature to suggest context-based design considerations

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Number Entry, Interaction Design, Usability Telephone, Interfaces
Publisher:	Springer Link
ISBN:	9783642404795
ISSN:	0302-9743
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 07:10
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/99291

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