Designing displays for older adults / Anne McLaughlin and Richard Pak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLaughlin, Anne, author.

Pak, Richard, author.

Series:

Human factors & aging series

Human factors and aging series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human engineering.

Older people.

Physical Description:

xiii, 200 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2020.

Summary:

"This book is a guide for designers of consumer electronics grounded in research. The design of displays for older adults provides an application of psychological science. The book translates basic psychological research on aging, human factors, and human-computer interaction into a usable form for practitioners who design displays and interfaces"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction

1.1. Demographics and health trends

1.2. How older adults use technology now

1.3. State of the art and what the next 10 years will bring

1.3.1. Self-driving cars

1.3.2. Digital realities

1.3.3. Robots

1.3.4. Artificial intelligence

1.4. Mission statement

Suggested readings and references

ch. 2 Vision

2.1. How vision changes with age

2.1.1. Visual acuity

2.1.2. Contrast sensitivity

2.1.3. Pathological conditions

2.1.4. Visual search

2.2. Interim summary

2.3. Display technologies

2.4. In practice: Presenting web information on a mobile device

2.4.1. Presentation of type

2.4.2. Organizing information on a mobile display

2.5. General design guidelines

ch. 3 Hearing

3.1. Hearing loss

3.1.1. Pitch perception

3.1.2. Loudness

3.1.3. Sound localization

3.1.4. Sound compression

3.1.5. Mp3s, cell phones, and other compressed audio

3.1.6. Background noise

3.2. Interim summary

3.3. Accessibility aids

3.3.1. Hearing aids

3.3.2. Telephony services and amplified technology

3.4. Interim summary

3.5. Human language

3.5.1. Prosody

3.5.2. Speech rate

3.5.3. Environmental support

3.6. Interim summary

3.7. Designing audio displays

3.7.1. Voice

3.7.2. Context

3.7.3. Passive voice

3.7.4. Prompts

3.7.5. Number and order of options

3.7.6. Alerts

3.8. In practice: The interactive auditory interface

3.9. General design guidelines

ch. 4 Cognition

4.1. How cognition changes with age

4.1.1. Fluid abilities

4.1.1.1. Perceptual speed

4.1.1.2. Working memory capacity

4.1.1.3. Attention

4.1.1.4. Reasoning ability

4.1.1.5. Spatial ability

4.1.1.6. Interim summary of fluid abilities

4.1.2. Crystallized knowledge

4.1.2.1. Verbal ability

4.1.2.2. Knowledge and experience

4.1.2.3. Mental models

4.1.2.4. Interim summary of crystallized intelligence

4.2. In practice: Organization of information

4.2.1. Page navigation vs. browser navigation

4.2.2. Previous knowledge and browsing/searching for information

4.3. General design guidelines

ch. 5 Movement

5.1. How movement changes with age

5.1.1. Response time

5.1.2. Accuracy

5.1.2.1. Increasing accuracy

5.1.3. Modeling response time and accuracy

5.2. Interim summary

5.3. Movement disorders

5.3.1. Parkinson's disease

5.3.2. Arthritis

5.4. Accessibility aids for movement control

5.4.1. Feedback

5.4.1.1. Tactile feedback

5.4.1.2. Auditory feedback

5.5. Interim summary

5.6. In practice: Display gestures

5.7. General design guidelines

ch. 6 Older Adults in the User-Centered Design Process

6.1. How testing older users is different

6.2. Requirements gathering

6.2.1. Age-sensitive user profiles and personas

6.2.1.1. Technological demographics and attitudes toward technology

6.2.1.2. Physiological attributes

6.2.2. Task analysis

6.2.3. Surveys

6.2.4. Focus groups

6.2.5. Interviews

6.2.6. Observation studies

6.3. Evaluation/inspection

6.3.1. Heuristic evaluations

6.4. Designing/prototyping/implementing alternate designs

6.4.1. Paper mock-ups/prototyping

6.4.1.1. Representative tasks

6.4.2. Simulating the effects of aging

6.5. Recruiting

6.6. Summary

ch. 7 Preface to Usability Evaluations and Redesigns

7.1. Organization of the redesign chapters

7.2. Displays chosen for evaluation and redesign

ch. 8 Integrative Example: Smart Speakers

8.1. Overview

8.2. Step 1: Create a persona

8.2.1. Persona

8.3. Step 2: Define a task

8.4. Emergent themes

8.5. Tasks analysis of a smart speaker

8.5.1. Common issues

8.5.2. Positive design elements

8.6. Testing

8.7. Revised experience after redesign

Suggested readings

ch. 9 Integrative Example: Workplace Communication Software

9.1. Overview

9.2. Step 1: Create a persona

9.2.1. Persona

9.3. Step 2: Task scenario

9.4. Emergent themes

9.5. Task analysis and heuristic evaluation of using chat-based collaboration software

9.5.1. Major categories of heuristic violations in workplace chat

9.6. Ideas for redesign of chat-based collaboration software

9.7. Summary

ch. 10 Integrative Example: Transportation and Ridesharing Technology

10.1. Overview

10.2. Step 1: Create a persona

10.3. Step 2: Define the task

10.4. Emergent themes

10.5. Task analysis

10.6. Heuristic evaluation

10.6.1. Expert evaluations

10.6.2. New heuristics

10.6.3. Heuristic violations

10.6.4. Heuristics specific to older adults

10.7. Discussion

ch. 11 Integrative Example: Mixed Reality Systems

11.1. Overview

11.2. Step 1: Create a persona

11.2.1. Persona

11.3. Step 2: Task scenario

11.4. Emergent themes for older adult users

11.5. Suggested development and testing methods

11.5.1. Recruitment of representative users

11.5.2. Participatory design with older users

11.5.3. Iterative designs

11.6. Usability testing

11.7. Speculative design

11.8. Conclusion and design recommendations

11.9. Summary

ch. 12 Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: McLaughlin, Anne, Designing displays for older adults

ISBN:

9781138341838

1138341835

9781138342613

1138342610

OCLC:

1128889111

Publisher Number:

99987581697