Technology to Design -> Phone for over 60's

It has been agreed in a meeting that the useful technology we will design is a mobile phone for over 60's.

This won't necessarily include any of the latest technology, as the focus of the design will be centered around "ease of use". We will carefully consider current mobile phone interfaces and interactions and the problems elderly people have with them.

The aim of the mobile phone will be to provide a means of communication for elderly people as simply as possible.

We will need to consider the problems elderly people have with current mobile phones in our design, generally these are:

• The reluctancy of elderly people to use new technology
• Poor memory (illustrated perfectly in a previous post by Matt) meaning they can forget which button does what
• Poor memory to remember to actually charge, or take the phone with them.