Usability testing by older Americans of a prototype google map web site to select nursing homes

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Xie, Bo ^a   Pearson, Glenn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED; COMPUTER EXPERIENCE; COMPUTER TRAINING; GOOGLE MAPS; MOTOR SKILLS; NURSING HOMES; OLDER ADULTS; PUBLIC LIBRARY; USABILITY STUDIES; USABILITY TESTING;

HOSPITALS; LIBRARIES; NURSING; WEBSITES;

COMPUTER TESTING;

EID: 77951740756     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.423     Document Type: Conference Paper

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