The Research Of Elderly Smarephone Interface Design Based On Goal-oirentation

The development of Smartphone have altered human being’s life and user experience isalso more and more highly valued; with the decrease of threshold of the technology,manufacturers of mobile phone gradually put more and more emphasis on how to take upmore market shares by taking advantage of carefully subdividing the user group of MobilePhone. At the same time as the aging problem is aggravated, the development of mobilephone industry of aging population will bring more essential social meanings. With thegrowing number market shares of industry of elder people, however, mobile phone market,haven’t pay much attention on this field. Currently, the majority of domestic Mobile Phonemanufacturers still defined the elderly mobile phone as a characteristic of big button, big fontand high volume phone, which is restricted to the Extremely Simplified stage. Although afew manufactures have produced some Elderly Smartphone, sorts of only having operatingsystem Smartphone, the particular cognitive features and using goals of aged people are notconsidered as a part of elements for the phone interface design. As a result, more and morecomplicated interactive interface and inappropriate functional operating process for the agedboth make the old people far too behind to catch up with the new fashion Smartphone.The development of apps made Smartphone more than just a communication toolsbetween people, but provide a lot of convince for people’s life due to the services it offers. Inthe same way, the olds should also enjoy such a great benefit.According to all the issues listed above, this thesis put forward the concept of theResearch of Elderly Smartphone Interface Design Based on Goal-Orientation, which aimed tosolve the problem of lack the users’ goals. In this research of the users’ goals of ElderlySmartphone are decomposed to three layers: the Instinct goals layer，the Action goals layerand also the Introspection goals layer. Then carry out the research according to thecharacteristics of the three goal layers.Finally this paper proposed the prototype of the interface design for elderly Smartphonebased on the means of user interview, questionnaire, persona, low-fi prototype and user test.By counting and analyzing the results of investigation and test, the author find the designprinciple of action instinct goal, action goal and the introspection goal and bring all of them inthe final design.