Checklist de Inspeção de usabilidade para jogos digitais móveis na terceira idade

Abstract

The number of elderly people has been increasing over the years, a public that often ends up forgotten by their difficulties in interacting and socializing due to some motor or cognitive limitations that have been brought about over the years. Studies with the elderly propose, digital games, guidelines in usability, interface and design, but studies with techniques to help assess the quality of existing mobile digital games for this audience are still rare, this shows that we have a lot of research field, and studies like this help in the development of new guidelines that can facilitate the entry of the elderly in digital games and in the digital environment as a whole. This work aimed to produce and present the results obtained with the checklist-based usability inspection technique proposed for mobile digital games aimed at elderly users. The Design Science Research (DSR) methodology was adopted for the development of the inspection checklist to solve the problem in question. With the idealization of the inspection technique, it was possible to verify and understand the obstacles faced by the elderly and help designers to know how an interface affects the way in which elderly users are used.