TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing a portal for older users
T2 - a case study of an industrial/academic collaboration
AU - Newell, Alan
AU - Dickinson, Anna
AU - Smith, Mick J.
AU - Gregor, Peter
N1 - dc.publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33845427578&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1183456.1183459
DO - 10.1145/1183456.1183459
M3 - Article
SN - 1073-0516
VL - 13
SP - 347
EP - 375
JO - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
JF - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
IS - 3
ER -