Collected ideas from Research

From the persona's and the pictures taken from the houses that mine and Scott's grandparents live in, I have categorised some main points that will aid in the design of a prototype and also enable us to come up with a questionnaire to get feed back from the users what sort of phone would suit their needs. The points are as follows:

1. The phone will have to be carried around with the user in the house and when traveling to other destinations. Some sort of carrying mechanism must be introduced to facilitate this.
2. Arthritis and dexterity are a hindrance to this sector of society so there must be a control placed on the size of buttons used on the device.
3. Sight is also another factor which will mean if text is to be displayed digitally or on labels they must be of a god size.
4. With the addition of the following two points they must not make the phone to cumbersome for the user as it would become a nuisance and the phone would not be used.
5. The hearing of an individual may vary so testing must be done on to what range of volume output would suit the market we are looking at. This is when a blue tooth hearing aid may be used with the strength of the currently prescribed aid the user has.
6. The phone must be recharged somewhere and so setting up 'a cradle' must come with a good location and easy installation etc.
7. Will Aesthetics be important?

Specific Points to persona's:

Deidre: The phone would be useful when communicating with her husband when he takes the dog for a walk. She often goes shopping the phone would be useful if she had a fall and needed to contact someone (old people generally don't call the emergency services. They make do or maybe call their partner), or when if there was a complication when she needed to be picked up from the hairdressers .

Catherine: still to do after amendments

Ronald: still to do after amendments

All of these points give an idea of the specification the phone must have. the main features the phone would need to address are:

• Communication
• Easy of use
• Reliable (signal, different locations)
• Maintainable (Battery life, updating software, updating phone numbers)
• Cheap

Thinking into market research of phones already available, they must have some of these features to be valuable for our phones design of prototype.