Making computers easier for older adults to use

Published 27 March 1997

Aileen Worden, Nef Walker, Krishna Bharat, Scott E. Hudson

Citations367

TL;DR

The study described here indicates that when combined, these techniques can decrease target selection times for older adults by as much as 50°/0 when applied to the most difficult cases (smallest selection targets).

Abstract

Article Free Access Share on Making computers easier for older adults to use: area cursors and sticky icons Authors: Aileen Worden Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GeorgiaView Profile , Nef Walker Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GeorgiaView Profile , Krishna Bharat GVR, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia GVR, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GeorgiaView Profile , Scott Hudson GVR, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia GVR, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GeorgiaView Profile Authors Info & Claims CHI '97: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systemsMarch 1997 Pages 266–271https://doi.org/10.1145/258549.258724Published:27 March 1997Publication History 193citation3,057DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations193Total Downloads3,057Last 12 Months119Last 6 weeks16 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

Keywords

Social SciencesNeuroscienceComputer Science

Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralThe information capacity of the human motor system in controlling the amplitude of movement.

6,321 Citations1992Paul M. Fitts

The experiments reported in the present paper extend the theory to the human motor system, including the visual and proprioceptive feedback loops that permit S to monitor his own activity and create an experimental situation in which it is reasonable to assume that performance is limited primarily by the capacity of the motor system.

Psychological ReviewOptimality in human motor performance: Ideal control of rapid aimed movements.

1,338 Citations1988David E. Meyer, Richard A. Abrams +3 more

The present conceptual framework provides insights into principles of motor performance, and it links the study of physical action to research on sensation, perception, and cognition, where psychologists have been concerned for some time about the degree to which mental processes incorporate rational and normative rules.

Psychology Press eBooksTheoretical Perspectives on Cognitive Aging

948 Citations2016Timothy A. Salthouse

The Journals of Gerontology Series BAge-Related Differences in Movement Control: Adjusting Submovement Structure To Optimize Performance

262 Citations1997N. Walker, David Philbin +1 more

The study showed that all four factors, when isolated, are significantly different for the two age groups, however, in the task component where all factors could simultaneously affect performance, the age-related difference in performance was less than the difference in either the measure of noise-to-force ratio or perceptual efficiency.

View PDF

The “prince” technique

187 Citations1995Paul Kabbash, William Buxton

It is shown that selection in such cases can be facilitated if the cursor is an area, rather than a point, and that Fitts' law still holds when the target is a point and the width of the mouse cursor is W.

The “Silk Cursor”

163 Citations1994Shumin Zhai, William Buxton +1 more

For some tasks where stereoscopic presentation is unavailable or infeasible, the new techniaue offers an effective alternative and shows that the volumehcclusion cues were effective in both monocular and stereoscopic conditions.

View PDF

Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics SocietySignal, Noise, Performance, and Age

161 Citations1981A. T. Welford

Poor performances in both short- and long-term memory are due to failure to transfer items from primary to secondary memory and to the weakness of traces established in long- term memory.

Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics SocietySpatial and Temporal Characteristics of Rapid Cursor-Positioning Movements with Electromechanical Mice in Human-Computer Interaction

113 Citations1993Neff Walker, David E. Meyer +1 more

The spatial and temporal characteristics of positioning movements made with a mouse are investigated, analyzing subjects' speed and accuracy as a function of the types of targets that the movements had to reach.

International Journal of Man-Machine StudiesOptimizing speed and accuracy of menu selection: a comparison of walking and pull-down menus

30 Citations1991Neff Walker, John B. Smelcer +1 more

The results suggest that width of the path that the cursor must travel can be an important variable in explaining speed and accuracy of motor movement in a walking menu.

TU/e Research Portal (Eindhoven University of Technology)Dynamic control gain and tactile feedback in the capture of cursor movements

8 Citations1994DV David Keyson

Results of an experiment indicated that target acquisition performance was generally higher in the tactile feedback condition, followed by target gain feedback, in comparison with no-target gain feedback.