Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population Towards Universal Design
Auteurs : Johnson Jeff, Finn Kate
Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population: Towards Universal Design presents age-friendly design guidelines that are well-established, agreed-upon, research-based, actionable, and applicable across a variety of modern technology platforms.
The book offers guidance for product engineers, designers, or students who want to produce technological products and online services that can be easily and successfully used by older adults and other populations.
It presents typical age-related characteristics, addressing vision and visual design, hand-eye coordination and ergonomics, hearing and sound, speech and comprehension, navigation, focus, cognition, attention, learning, memory, content and writing, attitude and affect, and general accessibility.
The authors explore characteristics of aging via realistic personas which demonstrate the impact of design decisions on actual users over age 55.
1. Introduction2. Meet Some Older Adults3. Vision4. Motor Control5. Hearing and Speech6. Cognition7. Knowledge8. Search9. Attitude10. Working With Older Adults11. Case Studies12. Summary and Conclusions
Kate Finn has worked on user interfaces and usability since 1983. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from Georgetown University, she conducted research on natural language understanding systems and automated speech recognition. She was at SRI International for 6 years, where she designed and developed prototypes of graphical user interfaces for sophisticated intelligence systems. Since SRI, she has worked as an independent usability consultant, primarily on websites. She organized several workshops on Video-Mediated Communication, and was the lead editor on the book Video-Mediated Communication. She obtained a Certificate in Gerontology to better understand the unique capabilities and needs of older users. Currently Kate is co-founder and CEO of Wiser Usability, Inc. (wiserusability.com). She also blogs about design, aging, and technology at kate-finn.com.
- Presents the characteristics of older adults that can hinder use of technology
- Provides guidelines for designing technology that can be used by older adults and younger people
- Review real-world examples of designs that implement the guidelines and the designs that violate them
Date de parution : 03-2017
Ouvrage de 258 p.
19x23.3 cm
Thèmes de Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population :
Mots-clés :
Accessibility; Age-related deficits; Attention; Case studies; Case study; Combinations; Computer; Crystallized intelligence; Digital device; Digital technology; Diversity; Elderly; Elders; Emotion; Eyesight; Fluid intelligence; Guidelines; Hand-eye coordination; Hearing; Intelligence; Interactions; Internet; Knowledge; Learning; Long-term memory; Memory; Motor control; Multiple handicaps; Older adults; Online; Participatory design; Persona; Population; Privacy; Problem solving; Reasoning; Search box; Search field; Search results; Search terms; Search; Seniors; Short-term memory; Sight; Smartphone; Somatosensory control; Speech; Tablet; Technology generations; Trust; Usability test; Usability testing; Usability; User research; Vision; Working memory