Investigating the usability of PDAs with ageing users

People and Computers XXI HCI.But Not as We Know It - Proceedings of HCI 2007: The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mc Carthy, Sheila ^a   Sayers, Heather ^a   Mc Kevitt, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive decline; Elderly; Gerontechnology; HCI; Memory loss; MemoryLane; PDA; Storytelling; Usability

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DECLINE; ELDERLY; GERONTECHNOLOGY; MEMORY LOSS; MEMORYLANE; PDA; STORYTELLING; USABILITY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84860535226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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