Towards a List of Heuristics to Evaluate Smartphone Apps Targeted at Older Adults: A Study with Apps that Aim at Promoting Health and Well-being

摘要

This paper presents a list of heuristics to evaluate\udsmartphone apps for older adults. It further verifies the\udusefulness of the proposed list through a study\udperformed with two groups of five expert evaluators,\udwho inspected two popular health and fitness\udsmartphone apps – Nike+ and Runkeeper –through\udheuristic evaluation. Additionally, the evaluators\udcompleted a post-evaluation survey to provide\udfeedback to the researchers about the usefulness,\udstrengths and gaps of the heuristics list.\udThe results of the heuristic evaluations and postquestionnaires\uddemonstrate both a comprehensive\udapplication of the heuristics as well as an overall\udpositive assessment of their quality and potential to\udidentify usability issues of smartphone apps targeted at\udolder adults.