A discussion based on a design of cell phones usability by the elderly in China

Author

Dongfang, Zhang ; Qiang, Sha

Author_Institution

Sch. of Art, Jiangsu Univ., Zhenjiang, China

fYear

2009

fDate

26-29 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1385

Lastpage

1389

Abstract

An aging era has come into China, but the quality of the specified products used by the elderly, as well as the theory related has been very weak, which is prominent especially in IT products. For some reasons, cell phones, working as personal information terminals, are not completely suitable for the elderly in China today. The principles of the usability design of cell phones for the elderly deeply influenced by culture and the era, so that those principles are user-oriented just as the principles of modern industrial design. Only when you get a better understanding of the target users and their requirement, can you design the products that are of high usability.

Keywords

design for quality; geriatrics; mobile handsets; personal information systems; product design; China; IT products; cell phones; elderly people; personal information terminals; specified products quality; usability design; Aging; Art; Cellular phones; Human computer interaction; ISO standards; Manufacturing; Product design; Psychology; Senior citizens; Usability; Cell phone; Elderly; HCI; Industrial design; Product design; Usability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Aided Industrial Design & Conceptual Design, 2009. CAID & CD 2009. IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wenzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5266-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5268-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CAIDCD.2009.5374853

Filename

5374853