User Evaluation of Age-Centred Web Design Guidelines

Authors:
Panayiotis Zaphiris;Ulrike Pfeil;Dorian Xhixho
Affiliations:
Department of Multimedia & Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology,;Centre for HCI Design, City University London,;Centre for HCI Design, City University London,
Venue:
UAHCI '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Addressing Diversity. Part I: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We report an evaluation of a set of age-centred web design guidelines (SilverWeb guidelines) with older web users. We invited 24 older web users and used a cooperative evaluation to validate the guidelines and collect any additional problems. As a result of the experiment, 36 out of the original 37 guidelines were accepted, 1 guideline was disagreed with, and 5 new issues that were not covered by the guidelines were identified by users. Our findings show that input from users is a valuable contribution to the development process of web design guidelines and is essential in order to ensure a user-centred design approach.