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HCI
2009
13 years 10 months ago
Speech Input from Older Users in Smart Environments: Challenges and Perspectives
Abstract. Although older people are an important user group for smart environments, there has been relatively little work on adapting natural language interfaces to their requireme...
Ravichander Vipperla, Maria Wolters, Kallirroi Geo...
PSYCHNOLOGY
2007
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13 years 12 months ago
Extended Television: A Study of How Investigations of Use Can Inform Design Processes in Nursing Homes
This paper describes the shortcomings in the support that replaces the lost distributed cognition in older people who move to nursing homes and how artifacts can improve this by f...
Peter Abdelmassih Waller
IJMMS
2006
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14 years 13 days ago
Computer use has no demonstrated impact on the well-being of older adults
Technology is frequently presented as a panacea for the support needs of the ageing population, based in part upon the commonly-cited assertion that computer and internet use has ...
Anna Dickinson, Peter Gregor
CIE
2008
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
Designing new interfaces for digital interactive television usable by older adults
The adoption of digital television (DTV) could be particularly attractive for older people if appropriately designed. Despite this, when new services and applicat...
Mark Rice, Norman Alm
HCI
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Methodologies for Involving Older Adults in the Design Process
Older people provide much greater challenges to user-centred design than more traditional user groups. It is also very important to encourage (often young) designers to develop a r...
Alan F. Newell, John L. Arnott, Alex Carmichael, M...
BCSHCI
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Innovations in measuring accessibility: theoretical and practical perspectives
Recently, there has been an increased awareness in the general public, in government and in business that people with disabilities and older people have distinct needs and prefere...
Helen Petrie, Christopher Power, Ray Adams, Fausti...
BCSHCI
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Social support in empathic online communities for older people
The goal of my PhD is to investigate how older people exchange social support in empathic online communities. This will be achieved through an in-depth investigation of online com...
Ulrike Pfeil
MHCI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Using Landmarks to Support Older People in Navigation
Although landmarks are an integral aspect of navigation, they have rarely been used within electronic navigation aids. This paper describes the design of a pedestrian navigation ai...
Joy Goodman, Philip D. Gray, Kartik Khammampad, St...
ASSETS
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Dundee user centre: a space where older people and technology meet
In this paper, we describe the User Centre at the University of Dundee which provides a space for older people and technology to come together for the benefit of new learning oppo...
Paula Forbes, Lorna Gibson, Vicki L. Hanson, Peter...