What older adults can teach us about designing better ballots

Ergonomics in Design

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 6-11

  Jastrzembski, Tiffany S ^a   Charness, Neil ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Design; Human factors; Technology; Usability

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); TECHNOLOGY; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

ELECTRONIC VOTING TECHNOLOGY MACHINE; GERONTOLOGICAL APPROACH;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 38049061283     PISSN: 10648046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/106480407X255198     Document Type: Article

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