Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
139 results found tagged older adults.
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Robots for Older Adults: A Scoping Review
This mixed-method scoping review in the ACM Journal of Human-Robot Interaction establishes the state of the science for robots supporting older adults, covering 205 empirical studies published from 2010 through 2022. The review follows PRISMA reporti…
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Mosaic: Collaborative Ways for Older Adults to Use Their Expertise through Information Technologies
This SIGACCESS Newsletter article from IBM Research Tokyo and the University of Tokyo argues that accessibility research for older adults has focused too narrowly on healthcare and assistive tools that compensate for declining abilities, and proposes…
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Slipping and drifting: using older users to uncover pen-based target acquisition difficulties
Moffatt and McGrenere present an empirical study at the University of British Columbia investigating the underlying causes of pen-based target acquisition difficulty on a Tablet PC, with explicit attention to how age affects targeting ability. Thirty…
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Data visualisation and data mining technology for supporting care for older people
This Assets '07 paper from a UK consortium (Dundee, UCL, Imperial College) reports on a telecare pilot study that instrumented the flats of older residents with a modest set of unobtrusive sensors — passive infrared motion detectors, pressure sensors…
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Using participatory activities with seniors to critique, build, and evaluate mobile phones
This Assets '07 paper from University of Toronto engages older adults not as subjects of a usability study but as co-designers of a mobile phone system. Massimi, Baecker, and Wu argue that the two dominant trends in 'senior-friendly' phone design — o…
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Older Women and Digital TV: A Case Study
This paper from the University of Manchester investigates why digital television (DTV) services are unappealing to older women in the UK, using a Delphi interview technique with a panel of three expert DTV older women users (aged 69, 70, and 75) who …
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WISE: A Wizard Interface Supporting Enhanced Usability
This poster paper from Carnegie Mellon University presents WISE (Wizard Interface Supporting Enhanced usability), an alternative operating system and application UI specifically designed to address the cognitive deficits of older adults (60+) rather …
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A Three-Countries Case Study of Older People's Browsing
This short paper from the University of Manchester presents survey data on web browsing activities from 63 respondents aged 55 and over across three countries: 10 from Thailand, 40 from the UK, and 13 from the USA. The questionnaire, distributed duri…
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Evaluating a Pen-based Computer Interface for Novice Older Users
This short paper from the University of Oaxaca in Mexico proposes and evaluates a simplified pen-based gesture interface designed for novice older computer users who struggle with the traditional WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointers) paradigm. T…
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A Mixed Method for Evaluating Input Devices with Older Persons
This exploratory study introduces a mixed evaluation method for assessing common input devices used by older persons. The author argues that traditional input device studies rely too heavily on experimental tasks like Fitts's Law pointing tests, whic…