• DocumentCode
    687436
  • Title

    A Study of Applying Multimedia Design for Seniors Overall Styling Makeup

  • Author

    Pei-Ching Hsu ; Julian Hwang ; Yuan-Chang Guo

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Beauty Sci. Sch. of Nursing & Health, Nat. Taichung Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taichung, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    10-12 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    157
  • Lastpage
    159
  • Abstract
    In Taiwan, with the global medical technology advances, the average age of people is extended year by year. Also, due to the growth of older population, elderly welfare consciousness rises. The demand for older people on the appearance service is getting more and more attention, especially for hair, makeup, clothing, and other overall styling service. This study aims to investigate the application of multimedia design in older people for hairstyles, makeup, clothing and other colors overall beauty. Through interviews with experts, the researcher tries to understand the elderly after retirement, for the demands of their appearance. Collected through interviews with experts, this study comes to the following conclusions: 1. Elderly is still quite seriously for their outer looking, especially, elderly women. 2. Elderly, due to decreased visual acuity and colors, can not see clearly for certain colors, and easily confused, especially the darker color is not easy to differentiate. 3. According to the analysis, elderly women in central and southern part of Taiwan, are more diverse in the color of clothing and tone of acceptance than younger women in the same area. 4. Experts believe that senior citizens are likely to change in their hairstyle, make-up, and the overall styling due to environmental differences.
  • Keywords
    human factors; multimedia computing; acceptance tone; appearance service; central Taiwan; clothing service; darker color; elderly welfare consciousness; elderly women; environmental differences; global medical technology; hairstyle service; makeup service; multimedia design; older population; senior citizens; senior overall styling makeup; southern Taiwan; styling service; visual acuity; Clothing; Color; Educational institutions; Image color analysis; Multimedia communication; Senior citizens; Sociology; Makeup; Multimedia Design; Styling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robot, Vision and Signal Processing (RVSP), 2013 Second International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kitakyushu
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-3183-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RVSP.2013.43
  • Filename
    6830003