From close the door to do not click and back. Security by design for older adults
This work addresses safety challenges for older adults and software engineers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing knowledge with a case study and suggestions.
The paper tackles the problem of safety for older adults using mobile technology, addressing both online and real-life threats through a case study, and proposes design suggestions to improve application safety.
With the growing number of older adults who adopt mobile technology in their life, a new form of challenge faces both them, as well as the software engineering communities. This challenge is the issue of safety, not only in the context of risk older adults already face on-line, but also, due to the mobile nature of the used applications, real life safety issues raising from the use of on-line solutions. In this paper, we wish to use a case study they conducted in order to address this issue of interrelating on-line and real life threats. We describe how the observation from the case study relate to the collected body off knowledge in the relevant topic, as well as propose a set of suggestion for improving the design of applications in regards to addressing the issue of older adults safety.