Research on Factors influencing the Epidemic Information Acceptance of Middle-aged and elderlypeople on Mobile Terminals

Zhou, Z.; Xi, T.

In order to enable middle-aged and elderly groups to have a more efficient access to epidemic information when facing diseases, this paper takes covid-19 information as an example, 12 related factors interrelated to the efficiency have been selected through literature and user studies, amog which the key points and their correlation have been found out through decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory(DEMATAL). Results shows that the key elements that ultimately affect the epidemic information acceptance of middle-aged and elderly groups are content presentation, page readability and shareability;and the three factors that largely affect others are vision problems, page readability and page layout. Besides, the problems in the process of the middle-aged and elderly groups using mobile products to obtain information are further analyzed, and related countermeasures and suggestions for improvement are proposed. © 2020 IEEE.