Abstract
The vision system of the elderly will undergo age-related changes. Hearing, as a sensory channel for processing external information second only to vision, will impair the use and perception of products or services. User experience is a hot topic in design research related to the elderly in recent years. Designers also pay more attention to thinking about the experience needs of the elderly from the perspective of multi-sensory channels. However, the research on auditory aging design has not been fully developed yet.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the design elements and characteristics of the elderly’s auditory pleasure experience, so as to provide a reference basis for the auditory dimension of the aging design. The research methods include literature study, questionnaire, test, and interview. This study defined and extracted the elements that affect the pleasure auditory experience. A set of materials and tools was innovatively developed for the elderly auditory audio test. 40 elderly people took the hearing test. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis, the study had drawn the conclusion of the key features of the design elements of the elderly’s auditory pleasure experience and proposed a suitable aging design strategy based on the elderly’s auditory pleasure experience. In sum, the current study has guiding significance for aging design in different fields. The elderly’s pleasant hearing experience test system developed and applied in this research is universal. The mapping relationship between the auditory design elements and the elderly’s pleasant hearing experience revealed by it makes the sound more in line with the elderly’s hearing experience preferences, which is helpful to enhance the interactive experience of products or services for the elderly.
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This project, Research on Elderly-Oriented Design Countermeasures based on the Elderly’s Characteristics in Sensory Perception, is supported by Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Fund Program of the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. 19YJA760043).
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Men, D., Wu, L. (2021). The Investigation into Design Elements of Auditory Pleasure Experience for the Elderly Based on a Testing Tools Development. In: Stephanidis, C., et al. HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Papers: Cognition, Inclusion, Learning, and Culture. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13096. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90328-2_16
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