Searching for information on the web: Role of aging and ergonomic quality of website

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

Volumn 4550 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 691-700

  Chevalier, Aline ^a   Dommes, Aurélie ^a   Martins, Daniel ^a   Valerian, Cécile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive load; Ergonomics; Information search

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; ONLINE SEARCHING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

COGNITIVE LOAD; INFORMATION SEARCH;

WEBSITES;

EID: 38149137347     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73105-4_76     Document Type: Conference Paper

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