Development of Voice Information System for the Elderly

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop the voice information delivery system to increase the effectiveness of the existing system which transmitted only text messaging and images. The study sample consisted of 60 staffs in charged of information dissemination of local Administrative Offce of Trang Province and  60 elderly people of the province. The system was developed using HTMLS CSS PHP jQuery and Google Chart API. The Sketch 3 program was also used to design user interface Responsive website which could support on-screen of electronic devices of any sizes. Mean, standard deviation and percentage were employed for data analysis. The assessment of the effectiveness of the developed system by experts revealed that the system effectiveness was found at a high level as = 4.23. The information disseminators’ satisfaction with the developed system was also reported at the high level as = 4.35. The elderly’ s satisfaction from the existing system and the newly developed system was also found at the high levels as = 3.77 and = 3.42 respectively. The average satisfaction from the newly developed system increased 11.00 percent.