呈现方式和性别对老年用户使用和理解健康信息的影响

The Effect of Presentation Formats and Gender on Performance and Comprehension of Health Information for Older Adults

目的研究呈现方式和性别对老年用户使用和理解健康信息的影响。方法本研究结合人因实验和分析,采用针对4种健康信息呈现方式的组内组间实验设计,对不同性别的老年用户使用和理解健康信息及其眼动行为进行实验测试。被试为36位老年用户,数据通过重复测量的方差分析处理。结果健康信息呈现方式对认知绩效和眼动指标无显著影响,而对感知风险、主观认知理解、情感及偏好有显著影响。老年用户偏好于个性化的健康信息呈现方式,实验结果并无性别差异。结论健康信息的呈现方式会影响老年用户的对健康信息的主观认知理解,研究结果可用于健康信息技术中健康信息呈现界面的设计。

Objective To examine the effect of presentation formats and gender on performance and comprehension of health information for older adults. Methods A mixed design human factors experiment was conducted,with presentation format as within variable and gender as between variable.Measures for participants' performance,comprehension and eye movement were recorded.Thirty six older adults participated in this study.Repeated measures analysis of variance were used for data analysis. Results The results showed that presentation formats had no significant effects on performance and eye movement measures.However,presentation formats had significant effects on perceiving risks,subjective perceptions,emotion and preference.Older adults preferred personalized presentation format that contained more information cues.No gender differences were observed for any of the measures. Conclusion The presentation formats of health information affect subjective perceptions of health information by older adults.The findings provide important implications for the interface design of health information in varied health information technologies.