Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population. Towards Universal Design

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Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population: Towards Universal Design presents age-friendly design guidelines that are well-established, agreed-upon, research-based, actionable, and applicable across a variety of modern technology platforms. The book offers guidance for product engineers, designers, or students who want to produce technological products and online services that can be easily and successfully used by older adults and other populations. It presents typical age-related characteristics, addressing vision and visual design, hand-eye coordination and ergonomics, hearing and sound, speech and comprehension, navigation, focus, cognition, attention, learning, memory, content and writing, attitude and affect, and general accessibility. The authors explore characteristics of aging via realistic personas which demonstrate the impact of design decisions on actual users over age 55. Content: Front Matter,Copyright,Foreword,AcknowledgmentsEntitled to full textChapter 1 - Introduction, Pages 1-12 Chapter 2 - Meet Some Older Adults, Pages 13-25 Chapter 3 - Vision, Pages 27-53 Chapter 4 - Motor Control, Pages 55-72 Chapter 5 - Hearing and Speech, Pages 73-84 Chapter 6 - Cognition, Pages 85-118 Chapter 7 - Knowledge, Pages 119-136 Chapter 8 - Search, Pages 137-143 Chapter 9 - Attitude, Pages 145-157 Chapter 10 - Working With Older Adults, Pages 159-180 Chapter 11 - Case Studies, Pages 181-217 Chapter 12 - Summary and Conclusions, Pages 219-222 Appendix - Design Guidelines, Pages 223-228 References, Pages 229-238 Index, Pages 239-242