The Competency in Using Smartphones of the Homebound Older Adult

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Title

The Competency in Using Smartphones of the Homebound Older Adult

Subject

Interaction
User interface
Smartphone
Aging
Older Adult

Description

Smartphones are widely accessed by all genders, ages, and statuses with the increasing use rate of older adults. When people grow up to older adults, they meet physical declines such as blurred vision, tremor in hands, and arms, slowness of movement, or postural of a humpback. These age-related conditions affect how they live and use the smartphone. However, some seldom go out for older adults' activities due to their physical impairment and diseases. They might have lower competencies than normal older adults. In this article, the test was conducted on 26 homebound older adults. The current investigation was concerned with their competencies of vision, hearing, touching, and memorizing to find appropriate average results for them. We found the scores value regarding font size, color contrast, icon size, a touching point on each button on the screen, keyboard's size, scrolling area, etc., which they can perform effectively on the smartphone. The main findings render a significant and unique contribution to the design community to use it as a guideline or standard for every designer who wants to design assisted technology by using a touch screen interface for home-bound older adults to conveniently access and efficiently use. Further, it also helps to improve the quality of life among older adults.

Creator

Duangpatra, Patana
Bunlikhitsiri, Bunchoo
Wongupparaj, Peera

Source

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 15 No. 09 (2021); pp. 136-153
1865-7923

Publisher

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

Date

2021-05-04

Rights

Copyright (c) 2021 Patana Duangpatra

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

Identifier

Citation

Patana Duangpatra, Bunchoo Bunlikhitsiri and Peera Wongupparaj, The Competency in Using Smartphones of the Homebound Older Adult, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2021, accessed November 7, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/1954

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