Addressing Age-Related Accessibility and Personalisation Needs of Seniors Through Model-Driven Engineering

Software applications contain many age-related accessibility and personalisation barriers that result in negative user experiences for seniors. A key reason is that software practitioners often lack the time or resources to address the broad spectrum of age-related accessibility and personalisation needs. To this end, AdaptForge is introduced as a novel model-driven engineering (MDE) approach that enables advanced design-time adaptations of software application interfaces and behaviours tailored to the accessibility-adaptation needs of senior users. Evaluations with professional software practitioners and senior end-users demonstrate the feasibility and practical utility of AdaptForge.