Improving pocket paint usability via material design compliance and internationalization & localization support on application level

Aiman M. Ayyal Awwad; Christian Schindler; Kirshan Kumar Luhana; Bernadette Spieler; Zulfiqar Ali

doi:10.1145/3098279.3122142

Improving pocket paint usability via material design compliance and internationalization & localization support on application level

Aiman M. Ayyal Awwad, Christian Schindler, Kirshan Kumar Luhana, Bernadette Spieler, Zulfiqar Ali

Institute of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (7160)

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Abstract

This paper discusses the implementation of Google’s Ma-
terial Design guidelines, internationalization, and localiza-
tion for mobile applications in the case of Pocket Paint, an
Android painting application. The intended goal of this re-
design is to broaden the user base by improving overall us-
ability and supporting right-to-left written languages such as
Arabic. The main challenges of the redesign are the intrica-
cies to thoroughly support both right-to-left and left-to-right
scripts, e.g., the positioning, translation, mirroring of text
and graphical elements, the ’when’ and ’when not’ to mir-
ror. Related to the Material Design guideline compliance we
carried out a user experience test with six users (age 13)
of our target group. All participants rated the redesigned
application being simpler, more appealing and concise in
comparison to the previous version.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3098279.3122142
Publication status	Published - Sept 2017
Event	9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services - Vienna, Austria Duration: 4 Sept 2017 → 7 Sept 2017 http://mobilehci.acm.org/

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Conference	9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Abbreviated title	MobileHCI 2017
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Vienna
Period	4/09/17 → 7/09/17
Internet address	http://mobilehci.acm.org/

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Awwad, A. M. A., Schindler, C., Luhana, K. K., Spieler, B., & Ali, Z. (2017). Improving pocket paint usability via material design compliance and internationalization & localization support on application level. Paper presented at 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services , Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.1145/3098279.3122142

Improving pocket paint usability via material design compliance and internationalization & localization support on application level. / Awwad, Aiman M. Ayyal; Schindler, Christian; Luhana, Kirshan Kumar et al.
2017. Paper presented at 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services , Vienna, Austria.

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Awwad, AMA, Schindler, C, Luhana, KK, Spieler, B & Ali, Z 2017, 'Improving pocket paint usability via material design compliance and internationalization & localization support on application level', Paper presented at 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services , Vienna, Austria, 4/09/17 - 7/09/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3098279.3122142

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