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

Torben Volkmann; Amelie Unger; Michael Sengpiel; Nicole Jochems

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22012-9_7

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

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

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute of Multimedia and Interactive Systems

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 (MÂ =Â 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HCII 2019: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance
Editors	Jia Zhou , Gavriel Salvendy
Number of pages	14
Volume	11592 LNCS
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Publication date	08.06.2019
Pages	84-97
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-22011-2
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-22012-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22012-9_7
Publication status	Published - 08.06.2019
Event	21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Orlando, United States Duration: 26.07.2019 → 31.07.2019 Conference number: 228669

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Volkmann, T., Unger, A., Sengpiel, M., & Jochems, N. (2019). Development of an Age-Appropriate Style Guide Within the Historytelling Project. In J. Zhou , & G. Salvendy (Eds.), HCII 2019: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance (Vol. 11592 LNCS, pp. 84-97). (Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI; Vol. 11592 LNCS). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22012-9_7

Volkmann, Torben ; Unger, Amelie ; Sengpiel, Michael et al. / Development of an Age-Appropriate Style Guide Within the Historytelling Project. HCII 2019: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance. editor / Jia Zhou ; Gavriel Salvendy. Vol. 11592 LNCS Springer, Cham, 2019. pp. 84-97 (Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI).

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Volkmann, T, Unger, A, Sengpiel, M & Jochems, N 2019, Development of an Age-Appropriate Style Guide Within the Historytelling Project. in J Zhou & G Salvendy (eds), HCII 2019: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance. vol. 11592 LNCS, Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, vol. 11592 LNCS, Springer, Cham, pp. 84-97, 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Orlando, Florida, United States, 26.07.19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22012-9_7

Development of an Age-Appropriate Style Guide Within the Historytelling Project. / Volkmann, Torben; Unger, Amelie; Sengpiel, Michael et al.
HCII 2019: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance. ed. / Jia Zhou ; Gavriel Salvendy. Vol. 11592 LNCS Springer, Cham, 2019. p. 84-97 (Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI; Vol. 11592 LNCS).

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Volkmann T, Unger A, Sengpiel M, Jochems N. Development of an Age-Appropriate Style Guide Within the Historytelling Project. In Zhou J, Salvendy G, editors, HCII 2019: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance. Vol. 11592 LNCS. Springer, Cham. 2019. p. 84-97. (Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-22012-9_7

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