태블릿 PC 환경에서 시니어 세대의 색채지각 특성에 관한 연구

초록

As South Korea entered into an aging society from 2000, the senior care industry in Korea is constantly growing, but is still in the early stage focused on certain areas such as healthcare, care, medical equipment, house, etc. Especially, very few people are using the information and communication devices such as the smartphone, and tablet PC for continuing social relationship of the senior generations in Korea, and research needs to be conducted regarding universal design that considers their mental and physical characteristics. In this study, an application was created and a survey was conducted for color experiment on tablet PCs. For the survey, conducted with male and female senior citizens between 55 and 70 of age, the preference for the background color, text brightness, and font size were evaluated and recognition level and preferred color image according to contrast, complementary colors, and color scheme, were surveyed based on two-color scheme using ten vivid tones of the IRI color system. The results were: first, for background color, font brightness and size, higher brightness and bigger fonts were preferred; and second, for color scheme, both male and female recognized opposite color scheme, complementary color scheme, and similar color scheme in the order. Third, although the results showed that there is no difference between males and females of senior generations in characteristics in color perception, there was difference in preferred colors.

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