Aging and human performance

Human Factors

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 548-555

  Charness, Neil ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE EFFECTS; AGING POPULATION; CITATION ANALYSIS; CITATION IMPACT; DESIGN CHANGES; HUMAN FACTORS; HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS (HFE); HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; MODELING TECHNIQUES; OLDER USERS; PUBLICATION RATES; QUALITY OF LIFE (QOL); SIMULATION AND MODELING; TASK PERFORMANCES; WEB DESIGNS;

ERGONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; STANDARDS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

AGING; CITATION ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

AGING; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 47749152233     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872008X312161     Document Type: Review

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