Website task performance by older adults

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 189-195

  Priest, L ^a   Nayak, L ^a   Stuart Hamilton, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluid intelligence; Health information; Older adults; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

FLUID INTELLIGENCE; HEALTH INFORMATION; OLDER ADULTS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 34249066219     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290500402668     Document Type: Article

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