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Recommendations for Age-Appropriate Mobile Application Design

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Advances in Design for Inclusion (AHFE 2017)

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This paper presents recommendations for avoiding or eliminating unnecessary barriers to mobile application usage by older generations. The aim of this paper is to help ensure that the design of mobile applications is accessible for elderly persons. The recommendations are written in such a way as to be easily understandable for both app developers and app commissioners. In order to examine the needs of the 65-plus generation with regard to user-friendly applications, a research project was conducted with 10 elderly users. This consisted of three phases: a focus group, usability tests of four commonly-used mobile apps, and, finally, an open discussion with the test group about their experience. The objective of the research was to discover the views of older users and to identify specific barriers encountered when using mobile applications. Based on the results, ten key areas were identified for age-appropriate mobile app design.

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  1. Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland

    Alireza Darvishy & Hans-Peter Hutter

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  1. Alireza Darvishy
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Correspondence to Alireza Darvishy .

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  1. Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi “G.d’Annunzio”Chiet-Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Bucchianico

  2. EIDD - Design for All Europe, Oliveto Lario, Italy

    Pete F Kercher

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Darvishy, A., Hutter, HP. (2018). Recommendations for Age-Appropriate Mobile Application Design. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Kercher, P. (eds) Advances in Design for Inclusion. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 587. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60597-5_22

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