網站科技的日漸發達,各種多元內容供應服務皆已透過如Facebook與Twitter網站形式來提供社群網路服務。隨著全世界老年人口的增加,愈來愈多的銀髮族群也希望透過於社群網路分享他們的心情文字、影音照片以及和親朋好友們多點互動的機會。然而,對於幾乎無接觸過網路的銀髮族們,面對操作功能複雜的社群網路實在難以學習。本論文將設計實作出一套以銀髮族為特定服務對象為開發基礎的社群網路軟體,並且客製化圖形使用者操作介面、支援語音輸入和輸出功能及精簡社群網路主要的基本應用服務。此外,為了讓社群網路服務著重於在使用者相關的人事物關聯,我們將基於開放圖表協定提出創新的銀髮族社群網路平台架構,提供更多銀髮族所喜愛的相關資訊,包含第三方服務以及各項應用程式和網站。未來的網路應用服務將充滿個人化經驗,並將其應用於銀髮族社群網路,讓銀髮族無論在何處皆可立即享受社群的好處。
Social Network Service (SNS) characterized by Facebook and Twitter has become the next generation paradigm of obtaining data, information and knowledge on the web. With the growth of the aged population, more and more elderly people also hope to share their feelings, videos, and photos and get more opportunities to interact with their families and friends through the community network. However, it is quite hard for the elderly people who have little knowledge about the network to learn to use the community network with complex operating functions. The aim of this paper is to develop a set of social network software exclusively for the elderly people, customize Graphic User Interface (GUI), support voice input and output and simplify it as an application service mainly for the major functions. Furthermore, our key observation is that propose innovative mechanism of elderly social network based on Open Graph Protocol (OGP) and provide more related information favored by more elderly users, including the third-party services and various applications and websites to make the community network services focus on the user’s association with people and things. The future network application services will be full of individualized experiences, which will also be applied to community network for elderly people, to make the user benefit from the social network at any place.