SAHL: A TOUCHSCREEN MOBILE LAUNCHER FOR ARAB ELDERLY
Keywords:
Elderly, Launcher, Arab elderly, user interface, Smartphone, Arabic soft keyboardAbstract
Mobile phones are becoming a great necessity for elderly people; the features they provide supported by rich functionality made them one of the indispensable gadgets used in their daily life. However, as mobile phones get more advanced and their interfaces become more complicated, new design recommendations and guidelines need to be developed to serve the elderly needs. In this project we distilled guidelines and design recommendations targeting elderly users' needs. Then, we used these guidelines to implement a prototype user interface that takes Arab elderly requirements into considerations. We then evaluated the developed interface on a set of Arab elderly people to determine its appropriateness for the target audience.
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