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Title A STUDY ON ISSUES OF ROMAN URDU TEXTING BY OLDER USERS

Author(s) MUBBARA ZANEB

Abstract As the development and utilization of technology is increasing rapidly. It identifies different experiences for older users. Most of the time, older users face issues in utilization of new interface. According to the United Nation world population report, the older people will become the main and largest part of the population in the coming era. With the increasing population of older people, Pakistan will also become an aging society. Older users are the late adopters of smart mobile phones technology. The older users in Pakistan are ready to use digital communication ways but they often face issues when they do Roman Urdu texting. Different factors are affecting their approval of Roman Urdu texting communication. The available smart mobile phones’ texting applications do not fulfill the needs of older users because older users are minority of digital system and minorities are poorly represented in digital system. To make the human computer interaction community aware, there is need to take the older users into account. There is also need to take notice about very common feature of mobile phones which is texting. Texting is an important and mostly used feature of mobile phones. As compared to the other digital communication mediums, texting is adopted by large part of the population of the world. It is observed that older users do no use texting applications. They often face issues when they interact with texting applications. Thus, the aim of this research study is the investigation of Roman Urdu texting issues faced by older users of Pakistan. Two phase methodology is used to inquire the texting issues. The first phase of methodology is literature review, to the investigate of texting issues faced by older users worldwide. The second phase of methodology is survey, to the investigation of Roman Urdu texting issues faced by older users of Pakistan. The results of this study are the Roman Urdu texting issues faced by older users and guidelines. Guidelines are proposed in order to minimize the Roman Urdu texting issues. The results of this study may be helpful in the design of texting applications for the older users of Pakistan.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Engineering and Computer Science

Department Engineering

Language English

Publication Date 2022-11-22

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