Investigating familiar interactions to help older adults learn computer applications more easily

Proceedings of HCI 2011 - 25th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 473-478

  Hollinworth, Nic ^a   Hwang, Faustina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Email; Familiarity; Human computer interaction; Multitouch interaction; Non WIMP interfaces; Older adults

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; FASTENERS;

APPLICATION INTERFACES; COMPUTER INTERACTION; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; FAMILIARITY; FORMATIVE EVALUATION; INTERFACE DESIGNS; MULTI-TOUCH INTERACTIONS; OLDER ADULTS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84880679713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2011.79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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