Abstract
The Quran is the holy book for millions of Muslims around the world and is read and learnt in Arabic. We are witnessing a spawning of many mobile apps claiming to provide a digitised experience of Learning Quran. In our research we present a thorough review of 37 such apps from the Google Play Store and 85 apps from iOS Apple Store. Our results shows that while most apps provide tailored interaction, in general the main target group remains adult Arabic speaking users. Moreover, real time feedback remains a sought after feature, due to limitations in speech recognition. Accreditation and authentication of the sanctity of these apps remains a key worry for most users. In conclusion, we present design implications emerging from our results that could be applied to mobile apps for Quranic teaching.
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Mubin, O., Alsharbi, B.M., Novoa, M. (2020). Reviewing Mobile Apps for Learning Quran. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1294. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60703-6_37
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