Usability Testing in Mobile Applications Involving People with Down Syndrome : A Literature Review

摘要

We present a review of research related to the usability testing of mobile applications includingparticipants with Down syndrome. The purpose is to identify good usability testing practicesand possible guidelines for this process when participants are people with this cognitivedisability. These practices and guidelines should account for their specific impairments. Weapplied document analysis techniques to searches of scientific databases. The results werefiltered considering how well they matched the research topic. We processed and reported theclassified and summarized results. The main findings of this literature review is that mobileapplications usability testing including people with Down syndrome is an issue that has not becomprehensively investigated. While there is some related research, this is incomplete, andthere is no single proposal that takes on board all the issues that could be taken into account.Consequently, we propose to develop guidelines on the usability testing process involvingparticipants with Down syndrome.