TY - JOUR
T1 - A Pre-study of Background Color Effects on the Working Memory Area of the Brain
AU - Anuardi, Muhammad Nur Adilin Mohd
AU - Shinohara, Hideyuki
AU - Yamazaki, Atsuko K.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgement. The authors would like to thank JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 16K01076 for supported a part of this work. The authors also would like to extend their gratitude to the individuals who participated in this study.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Many studies have suggested that the design of the tablet screen could give an effect to the tablet users' performance. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of screen background colors on the brain functions for elderly and young people when they are performing a task on a tablet computer. Twenty university students and 10 elderly people were recruited for participating in the experiment. The subjects were told to count the number of circles on a five different background colors, which are white, blue, yellow, red, and green randomly. This step was done in a short period of time. The average percentages of correct answers for the circle counting tasks that the subjects performed were higher with all background colors for both young and elderly people compared to the white background color. The results indicate that white color may not be the best choice for a background color of a tablet screen for best performance and attention for both young and elderly people.
AB - Many studies have suggested that the design of the tablet screen could give an effect to the tablet users' performance. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of screen background colors on the brain functions for elderly and young people when they are performing a task on a tablet computer. Twenty university students and 10 elderly people were recruited for participating in the experiment. The subjects were told to count the number of circles on a five different background colors, which are white, blue, yellow, red, and green randomly. This step was done in a short period of time. The average percentages of correct answers for the circle counting tasks that the subjects performed were higher with all background colors for both young and elderly people compared to the white background color. The results indicate that white color may not be the best choice for a background color of a tablet screen for best performance and attention for both young and elderly people.
KW - NIRS
KW - background color
KW - tablet computer
KW - working memory
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.160
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.160
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84988874542
SN - 1877-0509
VL - 96
SP - 1172
EP - 1178
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
T2 - 20th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2016
Y2 - 5 September 2016 through 7 September 2016
ER -