On some aspects of improving mobile applications for the elderly

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4554 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 923-932

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Searle, Gig ^a   Witzer, Alexander Nischel ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b FH JOANNEUM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Age simulator; Mobile interfaces; Usability; User centered design

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; USER INTERFACES;

AGE SIMULATOR; MOBILE INTERFACES; USABILITY; USER CENTERED DESIGN;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 38149009009     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73279-2_103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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