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Quit Playing With Your Watch: Perceptions Of Smartwatch Use, Christopher M. Gaeta
Quit Playing With Your Watch: Perceptions Of Smartwatch Use, Christopher M. Gaeta
Purdue Polytechnic Masters Theses
This study identified perceptions and social norms that may affect smartwatch adoption. Interviews were conducted to identify perceptions of smartwatch use and norms that might affect those perceptions. Smartwatch use was found to activate norms associated with wristwatch use – specifically, smartwatch users’ peers took offense to the users looking at their wristwatches. This study also found that norms prevent the use of smartwatches’ voice controls in public and various perceptions of smartwatch use and ownership.
The Effects Of Parallax Scrolling On User Experience And Preference In Web Design, Dede M. Frederick
The Effects Of Parallax Scrolling On User Experience And Preference In Web Design, Dede M. Frederick
Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses
Parallax scrolling is becoming an increasingly popular strategy in web design. In addition to its ability to engage users with a website, advocates of the technique argue that it also improves the overall user experience. This study was therefore conducted to investigate whether parallax scrolling can support these claims.
Researchers have attributed a pleasurable user experience to the fulfillment of the following variables: usability, satisfaction, enjoyment, fun and visual appeal. The goal of this study was to establish whether or not parallax scrolling can influence these variables and subsequently the user experience.
Eighty six individuals were randomly selected and assigned …