Using participatory activities with seniors to critique, build, and evaluate mobile phones

摘要: Mobile phones can provide a number of benefits to older people. However, most mobile phone designs and form factors are targeted at younger people middle-aged adults. To inform the design for seniors, we ran several participatory activities where seniors critiqued current phones, chose important applications, built their own imagined system. We prototyped this system on real evaluated seniors' performance through user tests real-world deployment. found that our participants wanted more than simple functions, instead variety application areas. While they were able learn use software with little difficulty, hardware made completing some tasks frustrating or difficult. Based experience participants, offer considerations community about how devices engage them in activities.