Research on the Visual Impact of the Mobile Device Chinese Word Colors and Fonts for the Aged

Abstract:

Technologically advanced age, the aged has become this era of disadvantaged groups. In the past there is a large button cell phone use for the aged. But mobile communications in recent years has developed into a smartphone with touch screen, resulting in the aged inconvenient to use and easy to recognize. However, not only mobile communications products, including the use of computer pages, software and other information equipment, but also most of these reasons are caused because the elderly person's eyesight due to aging and gradual degradation due to unrecognized normal average person can accept the font size and color. Therefore, the present study the way of creating web pages, design a different font size and color and with different backgrounds, the use of the Tablet PC and the smartphone, to community centers let the aged test which screens more acceptable, after comparing statistics, induction, and for the subsequent production of the aged web designers use the reference basis, to cope with the future aging society.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 851)
• Pages: 873-878
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.851.873
• Online since: August 2016
• Authors: Chih Sheng Chen*
• Keywords: Aged, Mobile Device, Text Color

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