Designing User Interface of Hospital Guidance System for the Elderly

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper propose an application UI (User Interface) for hospital guardian system that shows process of treatment to the elderly. To improve the usability of IT service for the elderly, it must be needed to apply that their physical and cognitive characteristics. Actually, these are excluded sometimes in UI design process that makes connection between diverse functions provided by products and user. So, this study tried to design a simple and clear UI for the elderly by considering cognitive difficulty and limitations of mobile display. To design mobile application UI specialized for elder people, various methodology of UI design proceeded sequentially. (1) First, we carried out problems analysis by observation of elderly patients according to Ethnography method; (2) To show how user interacts with application intuitively, the Information Architecture was designed; (3) And, the proper UI and GUI designed as well; (4) Finally, we tested about usability by informal Heuristic Evaluation. It helps create the higher value-added mobile device for the elderly.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• ABSTRACT
• 1. Introduction
• 2. User Study
• 3. Information Architecture
• 4. UI design
• 5. Usability test
• 6. Conclusion & Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Author listings