老年人数字通讯产品需求分析与设计研究

Demand analysis and design of digital communication products for elderly people

随着中国老年人比例的上升,老年用户数字通信产品的市场需求不断增加。目前,在老年用户数字通讯产品的市场中,广泛存在设计单调、种类贫乏等问题。为解决上述问题,以老年用户为中心,对老年人心理、生理的衰老变化做了调研,关注"低龄老人"和"高龄老人"使用电子通讯类产品的区别,调研和分析了不同受教育程度老人用户使用电子通讯类产品的当前状况。同时,还通过问卷调查得出了现代老年人对数字通讯设备的期望和需求以及老年用户不习惯使用电子类产品的原因,针对老年人产品设计提出了新的设计原则,完成了老年手机人机界面的研究、分析工作。

With the rising of the old people population in China,the market demand of digital communication products for the elderly people is increasing. In the market for the elderly user,the digital communication products have the problems of simple design,poor variety,etc. To solve the above problems,the caducity variation of the elderly people psychology and physiology was investigated by taking the elderly user as the center. The difference of using electronic communication products between the ＂younger old-man＂ and the ＂oldest man＂ is given. The current condition of the elderly prople using electronic communication products with different education levels is investigated and analyzed. The expectation and demand of digital communication device to the modern eldrly people,and the reaons why the elderly user is unused to the electronic devices are obtained by means of questionnaire survey. The new design principle is proposed for the product design of the elderly people. The study and analysis work of the human-computer interface for the elderly people mobile phone were accomplished.