The majority of the countries in the world are showing a strong increase in the number of elderly people in the population. The developed countries have a significant ageing population above 65 years old and it is still in rise. With present trends, the elderly population will be the majority of the world in few years. That means the ratio of the consumers too. In the other hand, world is experiencing an expansion in personal application of technologies like smart phones. However, there are very less smartphones, which were designed for inclusion of elderly consumers. There are few companies, which sells smartphones with a tag “designed for elderly”. Those are smartphones with odd ascetics and strange features. It is proved to be not serving the need properly and create a feeling in elderly that they are old and out from the new technologies. Many of the existing research resources hint with this reality. Most of the smartphones are introduced with new technologies, shape, design and features, which are aimed to younger population. This business and design strategy is leading the elderly to be avoided from the technology boom. In this paper, author addresses the demand for designing smartphones that will inspire elderly customers to buy and try. In addition, tries to formulate some guidelines for designing smartphones, with the inclusion of elderly in the target market. Since the elderly refers to many age categories, wellness and knowledge, it will be difficult to arrive at conclusions easily. This leads to streamlining the study only on the age limit of 70 to 80 years for not being at extreme trends of this population and to consider the bridge part between just elderly and very old elderly. Through segmentation of available smartphones in the market, the problems that restricts elderly from using the smartphones and survey of selected elderly populations in Italy, the research is drawn into some conclusions about the design guidelines to include the elderly in to the smartphone consumers.
La maggior parte dei paesi del mondo mostra un forte aumento del numero di anziani nella popolazione. I paesi sviluppati hanno una significativa popolazione che invecchia oltre i 65 anni ed è ancora in aumento. Con le tendenze attuali, la popolazione anziana sarà la maggioranza del mondo in pochi anni. Ciò significa anche il rapporto tra i consumatori. D'altra parte, il mondo sta vivendo un'espansione nell'applicazione personale di tecnologie come gli smartphone. Tuttavia, ci sono meno smartphone, che sono stati progettati per l'inclusione di consumatori anziani. Ci sono poche aziende che vendono smartphone con un tag "progettato per anziani". Quelli sono smartphone con asceti strani e strane funzionalità. Si è dimostrato che non sta rispondendo adeguatamente alle necessità e crea un sentimento negli anziani che sono vecchi e fuori dalle nuove tecnologie. Molte delle risorse di ricerca esistenti suggeriscono questa realtà. La maggior parte degli smartphone viene introdotta con nuove tecnologie, forme, design e funzionalità, rivolti alla popolazione più giovane. Questa strategia di business e design sta portando gli anziani ad essere evitati dal boom della tecnologia. In questo articolo, l'autore affronta la domanda di progettazione di smartphone che ispirerà i clienti anziani a comprare e provare. Inoltre, cerca di formulare alcune linee guida per la progettazione di smartphone, con l'inclusione di anziani nel mercato di riferimento. Poiché gli anziani si riferiscono a molte categorie di età, benessere e conoscenza, sarà difficile arrivare alle conclusioni facilmente. Questo porta a snellire lo studio solo al limite di età di 70-80 anni per non essere alle tendenze estreme di questa popolazione e considerare la parte di ponte tra solo anziani e anziani molto anziani. Attraverso la segmentazione degli smartphone disponibili sul mercato, i problemi che limitano l'uso degli smartphone da parte degli anziani e l'indagine di alcune popolazioni anziane selezionate in Italia, la ricerca ha tratto alcune conclusioni sulle linee guida di progettazione per includere gli anziani nei consumatori di smartphone.
Guidelines for inclusion of the elderly population into smartphone design
PUTHENKUDY VARGHESE, ANOOP
2016/2017
Abstract
The majority of the countries in the world are showing a strong increase in the number of elderly people in the population. The developed countries have a significant ageing population above 65 years old and it is still in rise. With present trends, the elderly population will be the majority of the world in few years. That means the ratio of the consumers too. In the other hand, world is experiencing an expansion in personal application of technologies like smart phones. However, there are very less smartphones, which were designed for inclusion of elderly consumers. There are few companies, which sells smartphones with a tag “designed for elderly”. Those are smartphones with odd ascetics and strange features. It is proved to be not serving the need properly and create a feeling in elderly that they are old and out from the new technologies. Many of the existing research resources hint with this reality. Most of the smartphones are introduced with new technologies, shape, design and features, which are aimed to younger population. This business and design strategy is leading the elderly to be avoided from the technology boom. In this paper, author addresses the demand for designing smartphones that will inspire elderly customers to buy and try. In addition, tries to formulate some guidelines for designing smartphones, with the inclusion of elderly in the target market. Since the elderly refers to many age categories, wellness and knowledge, it will be difficult to arrive at conclusions easily. This leads to streamlining the study only on the age limit of 70 to 80 years for not being at extreme trends of this population and to consider the bridge part between just elderly and very old elderly. Through segmentation of available smartphones in the market, the problems that restricts elderly from using the smartphones and survey of selected elderly populations in Italy, the research is drawn into some conclusions about the design guidelines to include the elderly in to the smartphone consumers.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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