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http://dx.doi.org/10.9728/dcs.2018.19.9.1759

The Development of User Interface Usability Evaluation of Mobile Healthcare Application for the Elderly  

Seo, Hyo-Min (College of Sport Science, Sungkyunkwan University)
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Journal of Digital Contents Society / v.19, no.9, 2018 , pp. 1759-1767 More about this Journal
Abstract
As our society is rapidly entering an aging society, interest in mobile health care services for disease prevention and health care for the elderly is increasing. To increase the usability of mobile healthcare services, UI design should be considered from an older person's perspective and a specific evaluation system is required to diagnose these UI usability levels. This study aimed to develop a UI usability evaluation area of mobile-healthcare application for the elderly. For this, we conducted a literature analysis to explore the comprehensive UI usability evaluation factors, and FGI for expert groups and user groups to derive UI usability evaluation areas and detailed evaluation factors. As a result, the usability evaluation areas for the elderly were divided into four areas 'design', 'contents', 'process', and 'system'. A total of 13 sub-factors and 32 detailed constructions have been derived.
Keywords
The Elderly; Mobile Healthcare; Application; User Interface; Usability Evaluation;
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