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DGO
2004
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14 years 2 months ago
Web Accessibility for Older Adults
The NSF-fundedi research described in this paper focuses on the development of automated software tools for improving Web accessibility for older adults. The Web offers great prom...
Shirley Ann Becker
DAGSTUHL
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Assisted Living Systems: Human Factors Considerations
Although many older adults wish to live independently, remaining in their own homes as long as possible, they may face obstacles such as transportation issues, social isolation, up...
Johnell O. Brooks
DAGSTUHL
2007
14 years 2 months ago
Functional Changes in Older Adults: Impact on Home Technology Design
: The aging demographic being experienced by all western countries has significant impact on health care utilization as well as the ability to remain in independent living situatio...
Victor A. Hirth
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Adaptive information search: age-dependent interactions between cognitive profiles and strategies
Previous research has shown that older adults performed worse in web search tasks, and attributed poorer performance to a decline in their cognitive abilities. We conducted a stud...
Jessie Chin, Wai-Tat Fu, Thomas George Kannampalli...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Steadied-bubbles: combining techniques to address pen-based pointing errors for younger and older adults
Tablet PCs are gaining popularity but many older adults still struggle with pointing, particularly with two error types: missing, landing and lifting outside the target bounds; an...
Karyn Moffatt, Joanna McGrenere
ASSETS
2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A web accessibility service: update and findings
We report here on our progress on a project first described at the ASSETS 2002 conference. At that time, we had developed a prototype system in which a proxy server intermediary w...
Vicki L. Hanson, John T. Richards
ASSETS
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
WISE: : a wizard interface supporting enhanced usability
The current state of software which targets older adults’ ability to use computers focuses on physical issues while largely ignoring the cognitive issues. As a larger percentage...
Joshua M. Hailpern
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Supporting medical communication with a multimodal surface computer
This research explores the utility of a multimodal surface computer for supporting medical communication between older adults and health care providers. Research involves a field ...
Anne Marie Piper
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Investigation of cultural dependency in mobile technology and older adults
Studies using different methods have been carried out of older adults’ use of mobile technology in Malaysia and the UK. Preliminary results suggest that there are significant di...
Sofianiza Abd Malik, Alistair D. N. Edwards
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Interactive effects of age and interface differences on search strategies and performance
We present results from an experiment that studied the information search behavior of younger and older adults in a medical decision-making task. To study how different combinatio...
Jessie Chin, Wai-Tat Fu