TY - JOUR
T1 - A preliminary experiment to investigate the effects of blue backgrounds on a tablet screen for elderly people
AU - Yamazaki, Atsuko K.
AU - Eto, Kaoru
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to extend our gratitude to Roshindo Association for their assistance in developing a software application for the circle-counting tasks with different background colors. This work was partially supported by 2014 Project Kenkyu Josei at Shibaura Institute of Technology.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - A tablet computer is considered as a useful tool for elderly people to improve their everyday life and even to have training to enhance their cognitive ability. In this study, the authors conducted a preliminary experiment to see how different background colors of a tablet computer screen can affect the attention of elderly people while they are performing a task on the tablet computer. Ten Japanese subjects over sixty-five years old performed circle-counting tasks on a tablet computer screen with white, blue and light blue backgrounds. For these three background colors, three different symbols including circles were presented in black, and the subjects were directed to count the number of circles in a short period of time. The average percentages of correct answers for the circle-counting tasks that the subjects performed were higher with the blue and light blue backgrounds than with the white background. These results suggest that white color may not be the best choice for a background color of a tablet computer screen for elderly people.
AB - A tablet computer is considered as a useful tool for elderly people to improve their everyday life and even to have training to enhance their cognitive ability. In this study, the authors conducted a preliminary experiment to see how different background colors of a tablet computer screen can affect the attention of elderly people while they are performing a task on the tablet computer. Ten Japanese subjects over sixty-five years old performed circle-counting tasks on a tablet computer screen with white, blue and light blue backgrounds. For these three background colors, three different symbols including circles were presented in black, and the subjects were directed to count the number of circles in a short period of time. The average percentages of correct answers for the circle-counting tasks that the subjects performed were higher with the blue and light blue backgrounds than with the white background. These results suggest that white color may not be the best choice for a background color of a tablet computer screen for elderly people.
KW - Background color
KW - Elderly people
KW - Tablet computer
KW - Task performance
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.299
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.299
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84941110993
SN - 1877-0509
VL - 60
SP - 1490
EP - 1496
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
IS - 1
T2 - 19th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2015
Y2 - 7 September 2015 through 9 September 2015
ER -