Study on Accessible Long-Term Care Mobile Application for Visually Impaired Users

Abstract

A result revealed by the Department of Statistics, 29,000 elderly people have registered for Visually Impaired Card in 2014, which was 51.2% of all visually impaired people. With annual growth rate of 1.56%, this number increased yearly by 1,100 people. According to WHO, 285 million people worldwide were estimated to be visually impaired, which is 4.24% of overall population in 2012. From age distribution point of view, most visually impaired people, accounted for 2.76% of overall population, were above age 50. In average, there are 7 visually impaired people in every 100 people above 50 years old. In Taiwan, 549,000 people over age 50 are estimated to be visually impaired. Therefore we expect there is a large amount of visually impaired people. The main purpose of this research is to collect adaptability information on the cognitive model of senior visually impaired people on their work status, social participation status, and leisure activities via questionnaire survey. Furthermore, descriptive video service is used to as an accessible long-term care application for visually impaired senior users. To solve disability circumstances and improve home care quality through visually impaired APP POC (proof-of-concept). The result of this research will serve as an important basis for other researches in related study field, a reference for practice application. As a result in encouraging profit-seeking enterprises design a user oriented products. And even be an opening for mobile accessibility services benchmark on technology social care for disability and senior users.