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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2018.16.5.043

The Improvement Index of Smart Public Services to Advance Information Accessibility for the Elderly  

Kim, Mi-Yun (Dept. of Design, Living Environment Design Major, Seoul Digital University)
Byun, Sung-Jun (Dept. of Geo-information Engineering, Sejong University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.16, no.5, 2018 , pp. 43-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, public service for the improvement of quality of life and life support such as safety, aging, disaster, welfare, housing, economy, urban environment, traffic etc are actively developed based on open public data, and the spread of the network and the necessity of everyday life, smartphones are playing a role in providing public services. Currently, the development of science is changing the life expectancy of human beings and changing into social structure in which aged people become bigger due to various social conditions and low fertility and aging problems. However, the elderly who do not have easy access to information are very uncomfortable in dealing with mobile devices with very low accessibility and utilization of public services provided by mobile phones. Therefore, this study recategorizes the condition of the elderly presented in the previous study and identifies the problem through case analysis provided for the elderly. Also, we summarize the hierarchy of the core items of the existing interface design and derive it as an improvement index of the public service design for the improvement of the information accessibility of the elderly, and propose a design method to improve the utilization of the public service provided through the mobile device.
Keywords
Information Accessibility of the Aging; Smart Public Service; Improvement Index; Smart phone; Improving Quality of Life; Life Support;
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