Designing a portal for older users: A case study of an industrial/academic collaboration

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 347-375

  Newell, Alan F ^a   Dickinson, Anna ^a   Smith, Mick J ^b   Gregor, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design for older and disabled people; Information technology to support older people; Specialized email and Web browsers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; INTERNET; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; USER INTERFACES; WEB BROWSERS;

ACADEMIC COLLABORATION; COMMERCIAL WORLD;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33845427578     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1183456.1183459     Document Type: Article

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