Análise de comportamento da terceira idade ao efetuar uma compra no site Americanas.com

  • Authors:
  • Rafael Xavier Esteves De Almeida;Simone Bacellar Leal Ferreira;Denis Silva Da Silveira

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil;Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil;Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, PE, Brasil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Symposium on on Human Factors in Computing Systems and the 5th Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The elderly, group of Internet users that is constantly increasing, use the Internet for several purposes, such as communication, paying bills, buying products in ecommerce sites, among others. In order to facilitate online shopping, to make it fast and not cause any trauma, it is important that the site's interfaces are easy to use by this group of people. Some qualitative researches punctuate several usability problems, verify user satisfaction and indicate adjustments and features better suited for the elderly that can be applied without extra costs on the system's in order to make these people more active in online shopping and part of the technological world. This article aims to evaluate the process of buying products done by the elderly, in order to make recommendations which allow developers to organize the information in the ecommerce sites to be better perceived and understood by users in this profile. To do so, the books purchase on the Americanas.com site was evaluated among five users, with ages ranging from 60 to 65 years old.