An empirical study on the influence of smart home interface design on the interaction performance of the elderly

Zhou, C., Dai, Y., Huang, T., Zhao, H. and Kaner, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-7946-7433, 2022. An empirical study on the influence of smart home interface design on the interaction performance of the elderly. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (15), p. 9105. ISSN 1661-7827

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Abstract

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 with the up-and-down sliding layout are better. Among all functional button styles, the interaction performance and subjective evaluation of the simple button style with lines are the best. Among the function keys with a size of 10–22 mm, the interaction performance is better from 12 mm to 18 mm. The conclusion of the better interface data information obtained from this experiment improves the rationality of the age-friendly smart home interface and makes the smart home interface better for the age-friendly scenario.

Item Type: Journal article
Publication Title: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Creators: Zhou, C., Dai, Y., Huang, T., Zhao, H. and Kaner, J.
Publisher: MDPI
Date: 26 July 2022
Volume: 19
Number: 15
ISSN: 1661-7827
Identifiers:
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10.3390/ijerph19159105DOI
1649983Other
Rights: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Divisions: Schools > Nottingham School of Art & Design
Record created by: Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added: 03 Feb 2023 12:58
Last Modified: 03 Feb 2023 12:58
URI: https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48161

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