The Impact of Information Layout and Gender on the User Experience of Smart Home Center Control System Interface

Abstract

With the popularity of smart home central control system, the visual design of their user interfaces has become increasingly important. However, the current user experience for smart home central control system user interface design is still lacking. The specific variables of this study are interface layout (i.e., symmetry and asymmetry) and gender (i.e., male and female) of the smart home center control. A total of 40 participants were recruited to participate in the experiment via convenience sampling methods. The results of this study are as follows: (1) The performance of symmetry layout was faster than asymmetry layout. (2) The symmetric layout was more flexible than the asymmetry layout. (3) There existed a significant difference in the task performance of different genders when operating the smart home center control system. Females had better performance than males. (4) In the symmetry layout, males felt that operating this smart home central control system would increase the amount of operations more than females, while the opposite was true in the asymmetry layout. In summary, there existed gender differences in the operation of smart home user interfaces, and they were affected by the user preferences of the interface layout.

Keywords: Smart home central control system, User interface design, Gender difference, Information layout, Interaction experience

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1005442