Research Of Interactive Design Strategies For The Old People

The aging population is an important social development problem, which the whole world is facing now; China is also joining to the elderly society's ranks with high speed. In the next ten years, many influences caused by this will gradually be more obvious. On the other hand, the modern information society tends to be youth. These two kind of opposite and unbalanced expansions will cause fission inevitably. How to make up the crevasse, how to make the relationship between the elderly and the modern products to be"harmonious", that is going to be discussed in this thesis.A great many international experts in various domains such as computer, psychology and others are all devoting to the research of Interaction Design, in order to eliminate the product's"boundary"and make the people go beyond the technical threshold thoroughly. The reason why this article focused on the elderly community is because of its specialties——it's the community who most need the products to give help in their real life and"show emotional care". The research of the Interaction between the elderly and the product is the typical application of the User Centered Design idea, its research results not only can improve old people's life, but also can be used to expand and supply the experience of products for the common users.Five parts compose the thesis:The first part: The introduction, mainly elaborated the concepts related Interaction, and proposed the sorts of products which is going to be studied in the thesis, analyzed the research background, proposed the research significance and the methods for research.Second part: Mainly discussed the comprehensive factors, which will affected the interaction between the elderly and the products, including: Physiological factor, psychological factor, social factor. Then discussed the elderly special demands in the life and the emotion aspect.Third part: First survey old age industry in the developed country, compared to which is in China. Afterwards propose design principles of the interface between the elderly and the products. Fourth part: Discuss Man-machine interaction from new angle, proposed the idea of high-level interactive design, and analyzed the future trend of product development. Then proposes high-level interactive strategies between the elderly and the product, which is supported by different kinds of interactive technology.Fifth part: The design practice, according to the UCD design flow, to understood concrete condition of egress elderly with the methods of observation and the questionnaire, and summarize their special demands, then propose the design solution accordingly.The whole thesis strives for some innovation and breakthrough theoretically, and which also can be a useful guidance in reality.