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The influence of age in usability testing.

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Age-related differences in the importance of speed and accuracy in task completion point to the need to consider more strongly the factor user age in usability research and practice.
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This article is published in Applied Ergonomics.The article was published on 2016-01-01. It has received 112 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Usability.

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Personal and other factors affecting acceptance of smartphone technology by older Chinese adults.

TL;DR: For older adults in China, self-satisfaction and facilitating conditions were proved to be important factors influencing perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, and cost was found to be a critical factor influencing behavior intention.
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Exergame technology and interactive interventions for elderly fall prevention: A systematic literature review.

TL;DR: It remains inconclusive whether or not the exergame-based intervention for the elderly fall prevention is superior to conventional physical therapy and the effect mechanism of the exergaming on elderly's balance ability is still unclear.
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Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics

Stephen J. Morrissey
- 25 Jun 2008 - 
TL;DR: A review of Human Factors and Ergonomics, volume 1, edited by Raymond S Nickerson as mentioned in this paper, was published in 2005, 306 pp, US$9500, paperback ISBN 0-945289-2
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Teaching digital literacy skills to the elderly using a social network with linear navigation: A case study in a rural area

TL;DR: Testing a social network consisting of multiple applications with linear navigation as a digital literacy method for the elderly in rural areas found that one of the most frequent emotions at the beginning of the ICT sessions was “fear”, but the continued use of the system improved the users’ perceptions of their own capacity to handle ICTs and their interest in I CTs in general.
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Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

TL;DR: Two 10-item mood scales that comprise the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) are developed and are shown to be highly internally consistent, largely uncorrelated, and stable at appropriate levels over a 2-month time period.
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Usability Engineering

Jakob Nielsen
TL;DR: This guide to the methods of usability engineering provides cost-effective methods that will help developers improve their user interfaces immediately and shows you how to avoid the four most frequently listed reasons for delay in software projects.
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Development of NASA-TLX (Task Load Index): Results of Empirical and Theoretical Research

TL;DR: In this article, the results of a multi-year research program to identify the factors associated with variations in subjective workload within and between different types of tasks are reviewed, including task-, behavior-, and subject-related correlates of subjective workload experiences.
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Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

Marc Prensky
- 01 Oct 2001 - 
TL;DR: For example, this paper pointed out that students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach, and that a really big discontinuity has taken place in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1

Marc Prensky
- 01 Sep 2001 - 
TL;DR: Part one of this paper highlights how students today think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors, as a result of being surrounded by new technology.