Share&Care: A Senior-Friendly Family Interaction Application

Seniors, or older adults, living alone often experience loneliness and face technical challenges when using mobile applications to interact with their families. We first performed a user study on older adults' family interaction and their mobile phone usage through in-person interviews with 12 older adults and an online survey for 28 people aged ranging from 16 to 35. Then we proposed and designed Share&Care, a senior-friendly communication application that aims to improve the seniors' experience with the mobile application and promote family interaction to reduce senior loneliness. This solution integrates senior-friendly user interfaces, multi-language voice interaction, senior managers, and multiple databases to increase the seniors' comfortability and trust in our application. Interested readers might watch a YouTube video introducing the Share&Care app at https://youtu.be/KeDxeV-5Rk.