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Title: Larger Chinese text spacing and size: Effects on older users' experience
Authors: Hou, G
Dong, H
Ning, W
Han, L
Keywords: user experience;font size;word spacing;line spacing;cognitive load
Issue Date: 28-Aug-2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Citation: Hou, G. et al. (2020) 'Larger Chinese text spacing and size: Effects on older users' experience', Ageing and Society, 40 (2), pp. 389 - 411. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X18001022.
Abstract: With declining vision ability, character spacing and size on smartphones designed for the general population are not accessible for older adults. This study aimed to explore how larger Chinese character spacing and size affect older adults' user experience (UX). An orthogonal experiment was conducted. The optimal range of font size (FS), word spacing (WS) and line spacing (LS) were proposed utilising subjective evaluations to investigate the correlation of eye movement data with participants perceived UX. The results showed that improvement in different aspects of UX varied when FS, WS and LS increased. Overall, participants preferred larger FS, WS and LS, however, the larger FS, WS and LS values are more likely to cause errors and slower reading speed. These results suggest that the distinct combination of size and spacing depends on the motivation, needs and situation of older people when reading on a smartphone. These findings will help designers to provide better design for the older people.
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/21777
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X18001022
ISSN: 0144-686X
Other Identifiers: ORCID iDs: Guanhua Hou https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0745-8896; Hua Dong https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4681-737X; Weining Ning https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1229-7468; Lianghao Han https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8672-1017.
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