Teach parents to use application to learn--in the eyes of the last generation

11 Vacation days, there is a small achievement, is to teach parents use mobile phone application. For people who travel to small cities, the public comment does not work, so my main teaching parents use the application is very simple, on two: micro-letter and Baidu map. Teach down a lot of interesting points to share with you:

Let me start with a background:

Both parents are 50 years old, in small city units work, have higher education, is the middle-aged and elderly health management application target crowd. Mom and Dad use the smartphone are Android, carrier version of the mobile phone, so the mobile phone has pre-installed some applications (according to mother said, in the phone, the business hall will also manually install some applications, including micro-letter, I check and so on). Because I told them to use micro-letters before, so they have been using micro-letter and I chat (only in the text of the way, and occasionally look at the pictures I sent over).

After mom changed her smartphone, she found that the most comforting thing about the new phone was that the screen was big enough to be able to write on the screen with a hand and a lot of clear photos and videos. She would like to know how colleagues use mobile phone to read novels and Shuwang, and my father asked me the first question, incredibly is "how to send things in a circle of friends." ”

1, this is very surprising, they actually know the friend circle this thing. But read their micro-letters and know why--the tacit friend ring the default update reminders inspire them to use the micro-trust circle of friends.

I am obsessive-compulsive disorder, has long been a friend circle of reminders to turn off. But for parents, their micro-trust friends are not many, the frequency of reminders is just right, and every time you open the micro-letter can see new information. It's fun for people who don't like to use microblogs, which are considered too complicated. Proper application reminders (mark a red dot at the point of the reminder) are not so objectionable.

2, in the eyes of parents, mobile phone is not applied to this layer, mobile phones and their own only between the phone (hardware), cell phone functions and their own. This is reflected in three aspects:

A. There is no third party in their eyes, and if the application is not good, it may be blamed on the phone. If it works, then this compliment to the app is also given to the phone. When I taught my mother to use Shuwang and map apps, she said, "You see I bought this phone is very good, there are so many functions, do not need to buy a map." "That's why I found out that they had" Baidu "app installed in their apps, and I didn't delete it because once they were deleted, they couldn't search anymore, and they thought it was a function.

B. They assume that the functionality in the application is generic. In other words, "collection" in their view is just a function of the mobile phone, not a single application exists in the function. When I taught my mother how to use the micro-letter "collection" function, she did not know to open the micro-letter to find the "collection" function.

C. They are also sensitive to privacy, and do not know if they have read too much news. So when other non photographic applications have the word "cloud" or "sync", they are worried about whether the photos will be automatically transmitted (synchronized, shared) and seen.

3, their application of the interface has a blind spot:

They are more comfortable with words than with patterned guides, which makes them feel safer. When the "button" is a pattern, they are easily overwhelmed and don't know what to refer to. This is a disaster for cautious, wrong-looking middle-aged people who are not afraid to make the wrong sort of mistakes as children do, so they never find the answer.

For my mother, she did not respond to the menu bar below the micro-mail interface (there was a button in the top right-hand corner)--it was not known to be able to press without booting. Because before that, she would only do a text-like message on the micro-mail interface, and then see the "Circle of Friends" with a red dot. After helping her to update the micro-letter to 5.0, she found that the circle of friends disappeared, a little unknown how to operate. I don't know if such a blind spot is an exception, which requires more research.

4. They need a practice-type boot, and this guide should remain in the help option for a long time:

Teaching them to use the application will feel that adults have differences in learning ability. When I taught my father how to use the circle of friends once, he quickly learned, and the next few days to travel in the photos to the circle of friends. And my mother is more difficult to learn, need to demonstrate, practice, demonstration, practice, too fast to read (may be the reason). This makes me realize that if you want to do an application for their age, you need more careful exercise-oriented guidance, which should be kept in the help option for a long time.

5. Other:

A. Teaching Baidu maps makes me realize that many applications are designed to facilitate our young (poor) people:

From the surrounding city back to Nanjing, I began to teach parents in the hotel how to use Baidu map to find a line, from the hotel this is the subway to the destination "Pioneer bookstore." But as soon as they were out of the hotel, they stopped to take a taxi and went straight to the bus. Many products in fact just let cheap and convenient travel plan is more easily found, Baidu map, where to me, is such a use. But for people of their age, they don't have the incentive to spend time learning these apps because they don't need to save money like me. t.t

B. They really do not delete applications and update applications:

This is a big problem, it is difficult to tell them how to update the application, why to update the application (in their eyes, this is probably a mobile function ah, why should the function update?) ）。 Many of the preinstalled applications have been kept until I do, and for useless applications they are not deleted, the solution is not to open it, and the applications needed are found in this pile of application icons. To teach them to manage apps, it's probably the next time I'm going to work on the church.

Did you teach your parents to use the holiday? Welcome to comment on the interesting things we shared.