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Design and Evaluation of Mobile Interfaces for an Aging Population

Authors:
Ljilja Ruzic
Christina N. Harrington
Jon A. Sanford

Keywords: aging; design; evaluation; mobile interfaces

Abstract:
The design and evaluation of mobile interfaces for older adults are becoming more important as the population ages and their use of technology increases. Current design strategies, which are used to guide the design of mobile interfaces, are either not primarily developed for mobile platforms or are not focused on the aging population with diverse limitations. Adaptation and integration of the existing strategies were necessary to create an inclusive and comprehensive set of guidelines for interactive mobile interfaces for older adults. The paper presents an overview of the Universal Design Mobile Interface Guidelines (UDMIG) and the related evaluation checklist. UDMIG v.2.1 and the evaluation checklist were developed to ensure usability of future mobile technologies by older adults through a universal design strategy that accommodates all users to the greatest extent possible. This paper contributes to human-computer interaction research by including this population of users and advancing the technology uses for the mobile touchscreen interfaces for aging population.

Pages: 305 to 309

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: March 19, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-538-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from March 19, 2017 to March 23, 2017