How older adults learn to use mobile devices: Survey and field investigations

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Leung, Rock ^a   Tang, Charlotte ^a   Haddad, Shathel ^a   McGrenere, Joanna ^a   Graf, Peter ^a   Ingriany, Vilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Learning; Mobile device; Older adults

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FIELD STUDIES; HELP SYSTEMS; INSTRUCTION MANUALS; LEARNING; LEARNING PROCESS; MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES; OLDER ADULTS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 84872459750     PISSN: 19367228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2399193.2399195     Document Type: Article

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