Age group differences in World Wide Web navigation

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 22-27-March-1997, Issue , 1997, Pages 295-296

  Meyer, Beth ^a   Sit, Richard A ^a   Spaulding, Victoria A ^a   Mead, Sherry E ^a   Walker, Neff ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Information navigation; Older users; Training; Usability; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PERSONNEL TRAINING; WEBSITES;

AGE GROUP DIFFERENCES; INTERACTIVE TRAINING; OLDER USERS; USABILITY; WEB SEARCHES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 85008400015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1120212.1120401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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