Designing user interfaces for an aging population : towards universal design / Jeff Johnson, Kate Finn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Jeff, author.

Finn, Kate, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

User interfaces (Computer systems).

Universal design.

Computers and older people.

Technology and older people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, and imprint of Elsevier, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. 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

Contents:

ch. 1. Introduction

ch. 2. Meet some older adults

ch. 3. Vision

ch. 4. Motor control

ch. 5. Hearing and speech

ch. 6. Cognition

ch. 7. Knowledge

ch. 8. Search

ch. 9. Attitude

ch. 10. Working with older adults

ch. 11. Case studies

ch. 12. Summary and conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780128045121

0128045124

OCLC:

973506816