A Study Of Scenairo-interface Interactive Design Of The Smart Phone For The Elderly

Aging is an important issue in current social development in our country. The way theelderly lived has dramatically changed with the development of society and the progress ofconception. The elderly today are more young at heart, more willing to join moderninformation society to enjoy the convenience brought by information evolution. Mobile phonehas become an indispensable personal device in modern life and had a wide range ofpenetration in both young and middle-aged people. Smart phone is specially become themainstream in today’s youth market because of its good using experience and a variety ofapplications. However, the design of mobile phone for the elderly seems lagging: featurephones are simple but still not easy to use while the smartphones are more lack of valuableresearch.For the vacancy of study of smartphone for the aged, this paper explored a new form ofinterface—scenario interface—to solve the problem of perception gap between the elderly andthe smart products based on an actual project. Scenario interface is a kind of interface thatusing stuffs and tools express relevant functions of the smartphone and blend them to aspecific scene, so that to build a relationship between abstract electronic function and realisticobject to make the icons easier to understand. This paper first analysis both the physical andpsychological factors of the elderly that affect the interactive operation, and discussed thespecific problems easy to appear while using smartphones, and then put forward somerelevant principles on smartphone interface design for the elderly. The paper also probes intothe conception of scenario interface. Based on the analysis of the existing cases, itsummarized the characteristics of scenario interface, put forward some guidelines no thedesign of scenario interface. At the same time, this also discussed the design progress andmethod to the scenario interface. Mainly included how to evaluate the applicability of thescenario interface and which form should it be in the strategy stage of design; how to organizethe demand point in the interface in the research and conception stage of design; then analysisthe interaction structure of the scenario interface from the angle of microinteractions, and howto design the triggers、rules、feedbacks and mode&recycling of the scenario interface on theinterface design stage; strategies to select the type of prototype for test and the test method onthe prototype and test stage. In the end, it showed an example design of a scenario interfacefor the smartphone for the aged based on the theories and principles put forward on theprevious study.Scenario interface as a kind of non-mainstream form has its own limitations, but forspecial groups such as the elderly, it may applies better if designed properly. This paperdemonstrated the applicability at some level, and provided several specific references to theprocess and method to the design of scenario interface.