With the acceleration of digital process, the problem of "digital divide" faced by the elderly becomes more and more prominent. Can't use a cell phone, can't surf the Internet, can't type....... Such problems not only make the elderly face a lot of inconvenience in life, unable to integrate into the modern intelligent society, but also make the elderly feel lonely and powerless.
Care for the elderly, Sogou input method online "New Year care for elders special edition"
In November 2020, The General Office of the State Council issued the notice on the Implementation Plan for Effectively Solving the difficulties of the elderly in using smart Technologies, encouraging scientific and technological enterprises to provide "caring mode" and "elder mode" for relevant applications, and stressing that enterprises should adhere to the needs of the elderly, strengthen technological innovation, and provide more intelligent products and services for the elderly.
As a necessary product for people to surf the Internet, the input method is also the first choice for the elderly to start smart life. However, most of the previous input products were not designed specifically for the specific needs of the elderly, which made them encounter a lot of inconvenience.
After the release of The State Council notice, the Sogou Input team immediately responded to the call, conducted a comprehensive survey on the input needs of the elderly together with People's Daily New Media, and based on its rich experience in operation and research and development, officially launched the Sogou Input method Chinese New Year Care for the elderly special Edition on the eve of the Spring Festival, which is more practical in function and simpler in operation.
Sogou input method New Year care for elders special edition: let the elderly can not only use, but also want to use
Compared with the ordinary mode of input method, the newly launched Sogou Input method New Year Care for the elderly special edition, starting from the input habits of the elderly, communication, interaction and other scenes to carry out personalized innovation and design of input method product functions, fully meeting the needs of accurate expression and efficient communication of the elderly.
1, simple and easy to operate, the elderly will use
The Sogou input method team found that compared with the young people who like the product design with more functions and variety, the elderly's biggest demand for input method products is simple and easy to use. Especially the elderly common poor vision, more need to design concise, clear and outstanding interface operation.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, the Sogou input method New Year Care for the elderly special edition, is around the product principle of "simple and easy to use", in the function setting and interaction, not only fully combined with the expression of the needs of the old people, more intimate customized input methods used by the old people, to provide the elderly with a more concise interface, function easier to operate exclusive input method services.
For example, in the keyboard toolbar, Sogou input method New Year Care for the elderly special edition to simplify, reduce the traditional mode of five functional options to three of the most commonly used functions of the elderly, and with clear text marks, convenient for elderly users to quickly use. Another example is to enlarge the font size and deepen the handwriting, so as to facilitate the elderly users to input.
2, provide a variety of input modes such as handwriting and voice, the elderly can use
The Sogou input team also found that in addition to text input, the elderly are more commonly used to input handwritten input and voice input. Therefore, the Sogou Input Method New Year Care for the elderly special Edition is specially optimized for the handwriting and voice input habits of the elderly, so as to facilitate their use.
For example, in terms of writing input, Sogou input method New Year Care for the elderly special edition not only has a special optimization of the writing keyboard, the handwriting is bolded, so as to facilitate the elderly to write more accurately. The handwriting keyboard also provides the default "write with" mode, so that the elderly can be convenient and fast continuous writing or overlapping writing, in addition to specially designed for the elderly to prefer the writing effect of Chinese brush.
In terms of voice input, Sogou Input method New Year Care for the Elderly special Edition provides voice input ability of more than 20 dialects and languages, which is convenient for elders who do not speak Mandarin well to communicate smoothly with the younger generation.
3, custom memes, let the elders easily bucket figure, with can not stop
In addition, considering the habit of sharing emoticons among the elderly, especially in social situations, Sogou Input New Year Care for the Elderly special Edition also provides a diversified collection of popular emoticons of the elderly for the elderly users, so that the elderly can easily achieve a bucket picture and send their favorite emoticons with one click, increasing the fun of their life communication.
In fact, as a national input method with more than 500 million daily active users, Sogou Input has been committed to empowering public welfare with technology for many years, and has launched personalized products such as barrier-free mode and dot input, which meet the needs of special groups for free expression and smooth communication, but also practical practice of corporate social responsibility in eliminating the "digital divide".
