An Empirical Study on the Influence of Smart Home Interface Design on the Interaction Performance of the Elderly

作者：Chengmin Zhou, Yingyi Dai, Ting Huang, Hanxiao Zhao, Jake Kaner · 发表于：International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.3390/ijerph19159105 · 被引用次数：34 · 研究领域：Technology Use by Older Adults、Color perception and design、Innovative Human-Technology Interaction

The concept of the smart home has been widely recognized and accepted, but the differentiated characteristics of elderly smart products in terms of demand and use are becoming more and more prominent. The lack of an efficient navigation design of the smart product interface increases the cognitive burden of elderly users, and how to better meet the needs of the elderly with smart products gradually becomes the focus of attention. This study was conducted for the elderly group, using the scenario-based design method to analyze the needs of elderly users, combining the research results of scenario theory with the smart home interaction design research method, focusing on how to make the style of interface navigation, sliding layout and button size more suitable for the cognitive behavior of elderly users. The purpose of this research is to realize an age-friendly smart home interaction design in terms of functional design and interface design. The experiment is divided into two stages: in stage 1, two different layouts and operation methods are commonly used for the age-friendly smart home interface: up and down sliding and left and right sliding; in stage 2, the functional buttons are square, where 4 styles are selected, and the side lengths are set to 10 mm, 12 mm, 15 mm, 18 mm and 22 mm. The sliding and retrieval test and retrieval and click test results show that for different sliding layout methods, the interactive performance and subjective evaluation of the interface wit...