How older and younger adults differ in their approach to problem solving on a complex website

ASSETS'08: The 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 67-72

  Fairweather, Peter G ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Hypertext; World wide web

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED; AGING; COGNITIVE DECLINES; HYPERTEXT; OLDER ADULTS; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; WEB SITES;

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 62949103707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414471.1414485     Document Type: Conference Paper

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