Designing for Older Adults
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As life expectancy increases, older workers and the retired form a large and growing proportion of the world’s population. Professionals working to develop systems and environments need to better accommodate the user needs of the older adult. This new guide provides a practical introduction to human factors and the older adult. It considers the subject primarily from an engineering psychology perspective, heavily grounded in today’s scientific knowledge. The authors show how current understanding of age-related issues of perception, cognition, and movement control can be applied in practice. They also provide a reference source with guidelines and advice for design issues ranging from lighting, computer input device selection, and web site design, to training program development and work task design. The text draws on research-oriented work and presents this in a form that can be used by the broad audience of product designers, health care practitioners, managers, and others who need answers to problems and require sound recommendations for design.
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Fundamental understanding of age-related changes in motor control, perceptual function, and cognitive ability was translated into design guidelines for input devices, output devices, human-computer interfaces, and training programs.
“Fundamental understanding of agerelated changes in motor control, perceptual function, and cognitive ability was translated into design guidelines for input devices, output devices, human -computer interfaces, and training programs.”
From Toward a Psychological Science of Advanced Technology Design for Older Adults (2010) · cites this paper as Fisk, Rogers, Charness, Czaja, and Sharit (2004)
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- Authors
- Fisk, A. D., Rogers, W. A., Charness, N., Czaja, S. J., & Sharit, J.
- Affiliations
- Florida State University (US)
- Venue
- CRC Press eBooks
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Published
- 2004-01-14
- OpenAlex
- W1543761991
- Cited by
- 781
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- FWCI
- 33.13
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CRC Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Keywords
- older adults, age-related cognitive decline, motor control, human factors, engineering psychology, lighting design, input devices, web design, training program design, design guidelines
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