The Design of Social Media Mobile Application Interface for the Elderly

2018 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI:10.1109/ICOS.2018.8632701

J. Chang, Nor Salsalbilal Hildayah binti Zahari, Yu Hong Chew

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The world's proportion of senior citizens is increasing and is estimated to reach 22% by 2050. The effort to create an elder-friendly world should span across all products, including the design of a mobile application interface. While human's dependencies on mobile applications will only continue to rise, there are very few systematic studies that validate the proper design of mobile application interface for the elderly. This study aims to serve as a reference on the design of social media mobile application interface for the elderly. The study began with a questionnaire survey of mobile device proficiency of a group of elderly. Then, they were asked to evaluate a social media mobile application designed for the elderly. Their feedback was collected from questionnaire survey as well as from interview. Based on their feedback, some findings on the design of social media mobile user interface for the elderly were discussed. It was found that physical-related design challenge is easier to deal with compared to cognitive issue. More studies were needed to suggest an effective cognitive-related interface design guideline for the elderly.

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老年人社交媒体移动应用界面设计

世界老年人的比例正在增加，预计到2050年将达到22%。创造一个对老年人友好的世界的努力应该跨越所有产品，包括移动应用程序界面的设计。虽然人类对移动应用的依赖只会继续增加，但很少有系统的研究来验证老年人移动应用界面的合理设计。本研究旨在为老年人社交媒体移动应用界面的设计提供参考。本研究首先对一组老年人的移动设备熟练程度进行问卷调查。然后，他们被要求评估一个为老年人设计的社交媒体移动应用程序。他们的反馈收集自问卷调查和访谈。根据他们的反馈，讨论了针对老年人的社交媒体移动用户界面设计的一些发现。研究发现，与认知问题相比，与物理相关的设计挑战更容易处理。需要更多的研究来提出一个有效的老年人认知相关的界面设计指南。

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