Design and implementation of a user interface of a smartphone for the Parkinson´s disease patients

Author

Ying-Wen Bai ; Chun-Cheng Chan ; Chia-Hao Yu

Author_Institution

Fu Jen Catholic Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2015

fDate

9-12 Jan. 2015

Firstpage

257

Lastpage

258

Abstract

In this paper we present a design of a friendly user interface for the elderly with Parkinson´s disease (PD) by using an open source system platform in smartphones. This design provides an interactive interface, a large font, a big button, an intuitive graphical interface, an important feature enhancement and some simplified functions, and it is suitable for the elderly with PD. This design also includes an improved main menu, a selective reply message together with a voice button function, a scrollable full-screen graphical buttons function, a medication calendar with both a list of return appointments and medication reminders of daily living, an easy to operate Web browser and a search engine.

Keywords

diseases; geriatrics; graphical user interfaces; interactive devices; medical computing; neurophysiology; online front-ends; public domain software; search engines; smart phones; Parkinson disease patients; Web browser; daily living; elderly patients; feature enhancement; full-screen graphical button function; interactive interface; intuitive graphical interface; medication calendar; open source system; search engine; smartphones; user interface Implementation; user interface design; voice button function; Calendars; Conferences; Consumer electronics; Parkinson´s disease; Senior citizens; Speech recognition; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7542-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2015.7066403

Filename

7066403