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As an important tool of photo management, current smartphone photo managing applications are not supportive enough for the elderly. In order to provide more support for photo management to the elderly, this research designed a smartphone photo managing application called ZhiTu. Focusing on four activities of photo management, which were photo collecting, photo organizing, path recalling and photo finding, four innovative features were introduced: (1) organizing structure, (2) seeking paths, (3) sharing, (4) treatments of special photo types. The application was evaluated using the method of cognitive walkthrough. The results showed that only five of the eleven tasks evaluated were agreed consistently to be suitable for elderly people. Information expression and the understandability of conceptual model are the main problems needed to be solved before further evaluation of functions with elderly people. Nevertheless, the conceptual ideas of this application were mostly approved. Comparing to existing solutions, polished follow-up version of ZhiTu was expected to provide more friendly user experiences of smartphone photo management for the elderly.
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Yang, M., Gao, Q., Liu, Q. (2021). ZhiTu: A Smartphone Photo Managing Application for the Elderly. In: Gao, Q., Zhou, J. (eds) Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Supporting Everyday Life Activities. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12787. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78111-8_11
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