Topic 5 - Design considerations for Social Media platforms

Design Consideration for Social Media Platform

Title: User requirements of social media for the elderly: a case study in Taiwan
Authors: Chou, Wen Huei; Lai, Yu-Tin; Liu, Kuang-Hsia
Source: Behaviour & Information Technology. Sep2013, Vol. 32 Issue 9, p920-937
Link: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2529943

This is a research paper by Chou, Lai and Liu (2013) that addressed design requirements of social media for the elderly while noting issues that were reported in previous studies. In this paper, the details study on how the elderly operates social media platforms is conducted. It also discusses the interface design requirements, accessibility assistance and elderly usage adoption for social media platform based on previous studies. This makes it our choice of a research paper for this week.

Title: What’s on your mind? : investigating recommendations for inclusive social networking and older adults

Authors: Norval, Chris; Arnott, John; Hanson, Vicki L.

Source: Proceeding, CHI '14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Link: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2556992

This paper proposed potential solutions to challenges faced by the elderly when using social media platforms and investigated how designers can tackle these challenges. The authors conducted evaluations by developing recommendations for developers and putting them in practice.