  Using smartphones for mobile self-testing could provide easy access to speech
intelligibility testing for a large proportion of the world population. The
matrix sentence test (MST) is an ideal candidate in this context, as it is a
repeatable and accurate speech test currently available in 20 languages. In
clinical practice, an experimenter uses professional audiological equipment and
supervises the MST, which is infeasible for smartphone-based self-testing.
Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the feasibility of self-conducting the
MST on a smartphone, given its restricted screen size.
  We compared the traditional closed matrix user interface, displaying all 50
words of the MST in a 10x5 matrix, and three alternative, newly-developed
interfaces (slide, type, wheel) regarding SRT consistency, user preference, and
completion time, across younger normal hearing (N=15) and older hearing
impaired participants (N=14).
  The slide interface is most suitable for mobile implementation. While the
traditional matrix interface works well for most participants, not every
participant could perform the task with this interface. The newly-introduced
slide interface could serve as a plausible alternative on the small screen of a
smartphone. This might be more attractive for elderly patients that may exhibit
more tactile and visual impairments than our test subjects employed here.
