Jiang J, J Zhang W, Jeung J. Analysis of Status of Smartphone Photography and Socialization among the Elderly People in Nanjing Community. 한국 HCI 학회 학술대회, 2020: 359-366.

Abstract

With the ubiquity of smart devices and the aging population，more and more elderly people begin to use smart devices. Their main application ranges from phone calls and messaging to payment and navigation. Many studies have been conducted on the evaluation of usability of smart device for the elderly. However, few of them were focused on the characteristics and difficulties of the elderly people in smartphone photography. This study took the elderly people as the target to research on their experience of using photo-shooting applications. Through questionnaires and interviews, combined with qualitative and quantitative researches, this paper explores the social influence of taking pictures with smartphones on both the physical and the psychological aspects. The result showed that 

1) Gender and living conditions are the main factors on photo-shooting experience, while age is not;

2) The minority of people involved in the research preferred to share their photos with the public, due to the fear of privacy-leaking and mis-uploading; 

3) The main difficulties for the elderly people are album management and the lack of affordance of the interface elements; 

4)The participatory research maybe an effective method in collecting and exploring data among the elderly people，according to our research practice.