Development of an Age-Appropriate Style Guide Within the Historytelling Project

Torben Volkmann*, Amelie Unger, Michael Sengpiel, Nicole Jochems

*Korrespondierende/r Autor/-in für diese Arbeit

Abstract

How can we support the development of age-appropriate system design in a society with new information and communication technologies (ICT) emerging at an ever-increasing rate, making it imperative to consider age-appropriate design to achieve the best possible usability and acceptance for older adults? This paper describes the development of a style guide within the Historytelling Project to increase the consistency and therefore efficiency of the interface and to gain a higher software development efficiency. The implementation of the style guide is based on the preexisting CSS framework Bootstrap because of its high amount of predefined UI elements. The developed style guide consists of two components: the actual implementation of the style guide in the form of CSS customizations and the associated documentation. Both components are freely accessible and editable online. An adjusted interface was tested against a standard Bootstrap interface with 31 older adults aged 51 to 93 (M = 71), of which 15 participants used the standard Bootstrap interface and 16 the age-adjusted interface. Findings indicate a higher task completion rate (effectiveness) across tasks for the adjusted Bootstrap+ version.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelHCII 2019: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance
Redakteure/-innenJia Zhou , Gavriel Salvendy
Seitenumfang14
Band11592 LNCS
Herausgeber (Verlag)Springer, Cham
Erscheinungsdatum08.06.2019
Seiten84-97
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-22011-2
ISBN (elektronisch)978-3-030-22012-9
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 08.06.2019
Veranstaltung21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Orlando, USA / Vereinigte Staaten
Dauer: 26.07.201931.07.2019
Konferenznummer: 228669

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