Touch screens for the elderly: Some models and methods, prototypical development and experimental evaluation of human-computer interaction concepts for the elderly

Information and Communication Technologies, Society and Human Beings: Theory and Framework

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 116-135

  Luczak, Holger ^a   Schlick, Christopher M ^a   Jochems, Nicole ^a   Vetter, Sebastian ^a   Kausch, Bernhard ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 79960290114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-057-0.ch011     Document Type: Chapter

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