A Bibliometric Analysis of Interaction Interface Aging Research: From 2003 to 2022

Abstract

Taking the motivation of the knowledge aggregation of age-friendly design resources as the starting point, this paper compares the development history of age-friendly design for interactive interfaces, understands the research status, hotspots, and development trend of age-friendly design for interactive interfaces from 2003 to 2022 worldwide, and summarizes and analyses them. This paper explores five aspects of aging-friendly design in the field of interactive interface design extracted from the Web of Science core collection database, including keyword co-occurrence analysis of global research literature, country/region information analysis, fundamental research areas, major research institutions, and future research directions. It explores the design methods, design trends, and design laws of aging-friendly design for interactive interfaces from a multidisciplinary perspective. The results show that: (a) Smart Home, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), User Experience, Internet of Things (IoT), etc., are the hot topics at the forefront of interface aging design. (b) USA is the world’s leading research site for interface aging design and works closely with China, where the population aging is more serious. (c) The main research areas of interface aging are computer science and engineering ethics. (d) Udice French Research Universities, the primary publishing institution, is worth attention. (e) This review proposes three research hotspots as important development directions for interactive interface aging design, including “smart home product interaction interface aging design will become a hot topic,”“fusion of multi-source data assisted interface aging design,” and “interdisciplinary interface aging design.”