Usability Evaluation of Instagram for Elderly Arab Users

Abstract

Social networks are on a continuous developing and have become widely used throughout the world wide, which imperative the equal access by all users. Usability is a main quality requirement that ensures software success. Elderly users had difficulties in their usage as literature reported, but little empirical data on this topic does exist. Seeking universal usability is a main concern for professional networking; therefore the aim of this paper is to evaluate empirically Instagram Interface by elderly Arab. The finding of the study highlighted a set of computer usability challenges that need to be taken into account by designers and developers in order to improve the usability of the Instagram Desktop Interface for elderly Arab.