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Designing Inclusive Smartwatch Interfaces: Guidelines for Enhancing Usability and Adoption Among Older Adults
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Aging introduces sensory, motor, and cognitive challenges and limited familiarity with digital
interfaces, often hindering older adults’ adoption of new technologies. Smartwatches, with their compact size
and health monitoring features, promise to improve older adults’ quality of life. However, their small screens
and complex interfaces create significant usability barriers. While guidelines for mobile and web interfaces
exist, frameworks for smartwatch design still need to be explored. This study addresses this gap by proposing
smartwatch-specific design guidelines for older adults. Through an analysis of user challenges, existing
design principles, and smartwatch constraints, the research formulates actionable recommendations to
enhance usability and user experience. The contributions include identifying key obstacles older adults face
with smartwatches, evaluating the applicability of established guidelines, creating tailored design principles
for small screens, and developing a design system that balances simplicity, usability, and functionality. These
contributions aim to facilitate smartwatch adoption and improve the inclusivity of digital technologies for
older adults.
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Keywords
Design guidelines Human-Computer Interaction Smartwatches Older Adults
Pedagogical Context
Citation
R. P. Duarte, V. N. N. Alves and M. Mota, "Designing Inclusive Smartwatch Interfaces: Guidelines for Enhancing Usability and Adoption Among Older Adults," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 64901-64929, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3559726. keywords: {Wearable Health Monitoring Systems;Older adults;Guidelines;Usability;Design methodology;User experience;Monitoring;Faces;Aging;Visualization;Design guidelines;human-computer interaction;smartwatch;older adults,
Publisher
IEEE Canada