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HappyLife is a software designed to help older adults easily find and create activities, combating loneliness and boredom after retirement. It features user-friendly interfaces with bigger font sizes tailored for senior users. The platform allows older adults to explore activities, create events, and connect with friends. Users can personalize their experience, making it easier to engage in meaningful social interactions. HappyLife aims to improve the quality of life for older adults by providing a digital solution to enhance social connections and combat feelings of isolation.
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HappyLifeAn Older Adult Event Organizing Software Xueming Wu Computer Science/2012 rynewu@gmail.com Yiyun Ma Computer Science/2012 yiyunma2010@gmail.com Chen Chu College of engineering/2012 chu.che@husky.neu.edu
Problem • Older adults cannot find an effective way to start an activity. • They must go to a senior center and ask them to start an activity.
Why they want to do that? • After retirement, older adults : • Feel lost • Feel depressed • Feel boring • Have plenty of time
Motivation • After visiting senior centers: • Why older adults go to senior centers? • What they are doing in senior centers? • What activities are provided to them?
Surprises • Some of them are really good at using computers. • Many older adults would like to pay some money to attend activities or go to senior center.
The best today • Meetup (www.meetup.com)
The best today • Users cannot invite friends to join them. • A lot of information on the screen. • Font size is small • Too many functions and filters.
Innovation - HappyLife • Older adults can only see what they want. • Less information = Bigger font size • Easy to find interesting events
What helped us. • Visits to the senior center’s computer room. • Paper prototyping.
Tasks • Attend an event which the user think interesting. • Create an event and invite some friends to join them.
(Add descriptive title) • Use the next set of slides to describe your interface ... Storyboard how it works. Using screenshots and/or real photos of people using your application, give a scenario showing how typical usage would solve the problem(s) you identified earlier.
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(Add descriptive title) • Use the next set of slides to describe your interface ... Storyboard how it works. Using screenshots and/or real photos of people using your application, give a scenario showing how typical usage would solve the problem(s) you identified earlier.
(Add descriptive title) • Use the next set of slides to describe your interface ... Storyboard how it works. Using screenshots and/or real photos of people using your application, give a scenario showing how typical usage would solve the problem(s) you identified earlier.
A UI challenge • Whether or not to ask the user to log in. • Whether a function is necessary or not. • How to make the interface easier to use.
Removed “Join us” • <-Previous version Later version ->
Removed “poll” function • <-Previous version Later version ->
Use category instead of search • <-Previous version Later version ->
Tricky programming problem • CMonthCalendarctrl • Time Line Widget • CListCTrl • Different Variable Types under MFC • Communication between Dialogs
The future • Alert function • Older adults don’t need to remember too much information
Future process • More testing • - Make the interface easier to use. • - Cover older adults’ need as more as possible.
Happy Life • Collect events from different senior centers • Help older adults to create their own events • Help older adults from different places get together and do something they like.
