Sogou input method the latest launch of the elderly mode of propaganda film "Wait for Dad" on the line has triggered hot discussion on the Internet. The story follows the daily communication between a single father and a son who get along in a long-distance relationship. The son is under great pressure from work and has a fast pace of life. Long-term online communication reduces his attention to his father. The turning point of the story is that through an experience of soul exchange in the son's dream, he truly realizes that his father is getting old and life in the information age will be a lot of inconvenience, but he lacks the care and understanding of his father.
The short film is full of emotion, how many parents and children's relationship just like the video shows: parents willing to give, children take for granted. Children enjoy the convenient life brought by the development of science and technology, but ignore their parents who have been quietly paying. And parents, in order to keep up with their children, are struggling to keep up.
Living in the smart age, the elderly will always meet many problems, such as: the screen is too small, can not use mobile phone typing, do not know how to pay. The development of science and technology is never only for the young people, it is to take care of different groups of people, only let all users can feel the convenience brought by the development of science and technology, then the technology is truly universal benefits.
Sogou team is concerned about the elderly in the modern Internet life in a variety of helpless phenomenon, so quickly developed and launched the "elder mode" this innovative function, with practical and effective ways to help the elderly and their children's practical problems.
So just how sweet is this product for elders?
The simplicity of the keyboard allows older users to avoid typing errors
The Sogou team found that the elderly easily touch other function buttons by mistake when using the input method, leading to the occurrence of input errors; Therefore, the ordinary typing keyboard is especially simplified, and only the keyboard, voice, expression, the three most commonly used functions of the elderly are retained, so that the keyboard is more concise, and the elderly will no longer look at the usually small ICONS caused by the mistake of touching.
The Sogou input method also takes into account the common poor eyesight of the elderly, and specifically enlarges the font so that the elderly can type more accurately.
Optimize input methods to make input more accurate
Many elderly users due to the reasons of The Times, and did not systematically learn pinyin and alphabet, they can speak and write but do not use pinyin, for young people with pinyin input method of crackling typing with flying, they are more accustomed to using handwritten input and voice input.
The Elder Mode is also optimized for this purpose. In the aspect of handwriting input, the handwriting handwriting is bolded to facilitate the elderly to input more accurately. At the same time, the popular "write along" mode of the input method of the ordinary version is brought to the elderly version, so that the elderly can write continuously or repeatedly as if they use a pen. At the same time, the stylus can stay longer, fully taking care of the situation of the elderly users' slow handwriting input, so that the handwriting input results are more accurate.
In terms of voice input, Sogou input method also provides voice input methods of more than 20 dialects and languages for elderly users, aiming at the characteristics of poor Mandarin. For example, "Turn around and you'll get to the store!" This kind of Sichuan dialect expression is difficult to be accurately recognized by ordinary input method. The "elder mode" can not only be effectively recognized, but also can be accurately translated into characters. Elderly users who can't speak Mandarin also don't have to worry about voice recognition errors. As long as you select your frequently used dialect in the voice input interface, users can enjoy the efficiency and convenience of dialect input in the future.
Science and technology barrier-free, is the due responsibility of every national product
For Sogou, the elder mode is a kind of innovation of product function, and for users, it is a kind of responsibility as a national input method, which reflects the importance and beauty of science and technology to the good and science and technology equality. As mentioned at the end of the video, our parents gave us eyes to see the world. Today, we should try our best to let them experience the convenience of science and technology, wait for them, help them slowly catch up with the script of The Times and enjoy the dividends of science and technology, just as they patiently waited for us to grow up.
