Designing a portal for older users: A case study of an industrial/academic collaboration Export

@article{citeulike:6075085, abstract = {A multidisciplinary team from industry, government, and academia developed prototype email, Web search, and navigation systems for users over 60 years old who were inexperienced in using computers and had never used the Internet. The academics encountered problems in persuading other team members of the specific challenges of designing for and working with older people. A number of ways of overcoming such challenges were implemented, and the final \“radically simple\” systems evaluated by a team of older people. The collaboration highlighted the conflicting pressures of the commercial world and the time and patience needed to design for older users.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Newell, Alan F. and Dickinson, Anna and Smith, Mick J. and Gregor, Peter}, citeulike-article-id = {6075085}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1183456.1183459}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1183456.1183459}, doi = {10.1145/1183456.1183459}, issn = {1073-0516}, journal = {ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.}, keywords = {developers, older-adults, requirements-gathering, search-a008, user-centred-design, website}, number = {3}, pages = {347--375}, posted-at = {2009-11-05 16:12:44}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Designing a portal for older users: A case study of an industrial/academic collaboration}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1183456.1183459}, volume = {13}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6075085 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6075085 N2 - A multidisciplinary team from industry, government, and academia developed prototype email, Web search, and navigation systems for users over 60 years old who were inexperienced in using computers and had never used the Internet. The academics encountered problems in persuading other team members of the specific challenges of designing for and working with older people. A number of ways of overcoming such challenges were implemented, and the final “radically simple” systems evaluated by a team of older people. The collaboration highlighted the conflicting pressures of the commercial world and the time and patience needed to design for older users. IS - 3 JF - ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. SN - 1073-0516 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 375 TI - Designing a portal for older users: A case study of an industrial/academic collaboration PB - ACM VL - 13 SP - 347 KW - developers KW - older-adults KW - requirements-gathering KW - search-a008 KW - user-centred-design KW - website AU - Newell, Alan AU - Dickinson, Anna AU - Smith, Mick AU - Gregor, Peter PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1183456.1183459 ER -