Towards Mobile Accessibility for Older People: A User Centered Evaluation

摘要: As people age, they experience a decline in wide variety of their abilities such as vision, hearing, mobility and so on. Mobile technologies could be used to improve quality life set situations security, autonomy or personal communication. One the main threats use mobile devices by our elders is accessibility barriers that exist on applications. Unfortunately, addressing these issues even harder new like smartphones tablets where there not proper guidelines focusing this domain. Based own guidelines, an evaluation two applications with elderly involvement has been carried out work. The outcomes support suitability proposed method evaluate; other hand data collected from study users provide interesting findings about perception older when interacting