Study of Touch Gestures Performance in Touch Devices by Young Children

This research tests the performance of 16 four and five-year-old children with an iPad application with four experiments corresponding to four different gestures: Point-and-Touch, Drag-and-Drop, Zoom-in and Zoom-out, and Rotation. The results show that 5-yearold children perform better than 4-year-old children in the four experiments. The results indicate that interaction design for young children that uses point-and-touch gestures should consider smaller distance between targets, and design using drag-and-drop gestures should consider larger size of targets, as these have significant effects in the way children perform these gestures. Keywords-touch devices; young children; touch gestures __________________________________________________*****_________________________________________________