Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
132 results found tagged aging.
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Understanding Design Considerations for Adaptive User Interfaces for Accessible Pointing with Older and Younger Adults
This paper explores user preferences for adaptive user interfaces (AUIs) that detect and accommodate pointing difficulties when using a mouse, touchpad, or touchscreen to interact with the web. The researchers conducted participatory design sessions …
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Remote IT Education for Senior Citizens
This paper addresses the challenge of teaching IT skills to senior citizens in Japan, where the elderly population ratio has reached 25% nationally and up to 40% in some regions. The authors identified that peer teaching — skilled seniors teaching un…
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Usability, Demography, and Directions for W4A
This provocative keynote paper from Alan Newell at the University of Dundee challenges the web accessibility community to broaden its focus beyond technical compliance for people with sensory and motor disabilities to address the much larger populati…
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Widening access to online health education for lung cancer: a feasibility study
This paper presents a feasibility study of "When2Go," a web-based lung cancer symptom appraisal tool designed to reach populations typically excluded from online health information: older adults with low education levels, low health literacy, and psy…
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Computer Anxiety and Interaction: A Systematic Review
This paper presents a systematic review of 111 papers on Computer Anxiety (CA) in the context of Human-Computer Interaction, synthesising research spanning 1986-2017 across four databases (Springer, ACM, IEEExplore, PubMed). Computer Anxiety is defin…
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Am I Too Old to Drive? Opinions of Older Adults on Self-Driving Vehicles
This paper explores the opinions, preferences, and concerns of 39 older African American adults (aged 57-91, mean 74) regarding fully autonomous (Level 5) self-driving vehicles through seven focus group sessions conducted over five days in South Caro…
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Perception and Adoption of Mobile Accessibility Features by Older Adults Experiencing Ability Changes
This paper presents the first empirical study exploring how older adults experiencing progressive ability changes perceive and adopt built-in mobile accessibility features on smartphones and tablets. The researchers conducted interviews with 14 older…
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Ageing is Not a Disease: Pitfalls for the Acceptance of Self-Management Health Systems Supporting Healthy Ageing
This paper reports on a qualitative study with 20 older adults (mean age 80, range 65-92) in Belgium, investigating their attitudes towards self-management health systems (SMHS) — integrated solutions that combine data from sensors and self-reports w…
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Supporting Older Adults in Using Complex User Interfaces with Augmented Reality
This demonstration paper presents an augmented reality system that provides step-by-step visual guidance to help older adults navigate complex user interfaces. The core problem is that older adults frequently struggle with complex digital interfaces …
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Gender and Help Seeking by Older Adults When Learning New Technologies
This paper investigates whether the gender stereotype that men are more reluctant to ask for help applies in the context of older adults learning new technologies. The study was motivated by the observation that if older men avoid asking for help wit…