Usability Testing Process with People with Down Syndrome Interacting with Mobile Applications : 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 practices and possibleguidelines for this process when participants are people with this cognitive disability. These practices andguidelines should account for their specific impairments. We applied document analysis techniques tosearches of scientific databases. The results were filtered considering how well they matched the researchtopic. We processed and reported the classified and summarized results. The main findings of this literaturereview is that mobile applications usability testing including people with Down syndrome is an issue thathas not be comprehensively investigated. While there is some related research, this is incomplete, and thereis no single proposal that takes on board all the issues that could be taken into account. Consequently, wepropose to develop guidelines on the usability testing process involving participants with Down syndrome.