Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
132 results found tagged aging.
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A Rollator-Mounted Wayfinding System for the Elderly: A Smart World Perspective
This paper presents the iWalker, a rollator-mounted wayfinding system designed to help elderly individuals with cognitive and visual impairments navigate indoor environments independently. The system adopts a "smart world" perspective, where intellig…
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Research-Derived Web Design Guidelines for Older People
This paper develops and validates a set of research-derived, ageing-centred web design guidelines through a rigorous multi-stage process. The authors began with an extensive literature review of HCI and ageing research, producing an initial set of 52…
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What Help Do Older People Need? Constructing a Functional Design Space of Electronic Assistive Technology Applications
This paper constructs a functional design space for electronic assistive technology (EAT) applications aimed at frail older people, providing both users and designers with a common framework for choosing and producing relevant EAT. The researchers co…
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Requirements Gathering with Alzheimer's Patients and Caregivers
This paper presents a requirements gathering study for an information appliance designed to alleviate repetitive questioning behaviour in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD), a leading cause of caregiver stress. The interdisciplinary team from Dalho…
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Effect of Age and Parkinson's Disease on Cursor Positioning Using a Mouse
This paper presents a detailed empirical study examining how age and Parkinson's disease affect the ability to perform point-and-click tasks with a computer mouse. The researchers recruited 24 participants across four groups: young adults (ages 20-30…
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Strategic Design for Users with Diabetic Retinopathy: Factors Influencing Performance in a Menu-Selection Task
This paper examines how interface design features affect menu selection performance for users with Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), a progressive eye condition affecting 40-45% of the approximately 18 million Americans with diabetes. The study involved 25 …
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A Web Accessibility Service: Update and Findings
This paper reports on the evolution of IBM's Web Accessibility Service from a proxy server prototype (presented at Assets 2002) to a client-side architecture that transforms web pages on the fly to meet the needs of older adults and people with disab…
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Designing for Dynamic Diversity: Interfaces for Older People
This paper argues that mainstream interface design fails older people by assuming a static, "typical" user who is young, fit, and male. The authors identify three broad groups of older computer users: fit older people who do not consider themselves d…
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Older Adults' Evaluations of Speech Output
This paper investigates older adults' subjective evaluations of different speech output voices in the context of an Intelligent Home System (IHS) designed to help older people live independently. Given that 66% of people with visual impairments in th…
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Technology Devices for Older Adults to Aid Self Management of Chronic Health Conditions
This University of Dundee study investigates older adults' opinions and attitudes toward technology devices that could be used as part of a telecare system for self-managing chronic health conditions. The research was conducted through technology eva…