Learning how older adults undertake computer tasks

Nic Hollinworth, Faustina Hwang
2009 Proceeding of the eleventh international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility - ASSETS '09  
This paper describes a study that was conducted to learn more about how older adults use the tools in a GUI to undertake tasks in Windows applications. The objective was to gain insight into what people did and what they found most difficult. File and folder manipulation, and some aspects of formatting presented difficulties, and these were thought to be related to a lack of understanding of the task model, the correct interpretation of the visual cues presented by the interface, and the recall
more » ... and translation of the task model into a suitable sequence of actions.
doi:10.1145/1639642.1639697 dblp:conf/assets/HollinworthH09 fatcat:lfdersa56fg5hbt5abnm36ngay