DESIGNING FOR OLDER ADULTS Principles and Creative Human Factors Approaches

• Main Authors: Fisk, Arthur D (Author), Rogers, Wendy A. (Author), Charness, Neil (Author), Czaja, Sara J. (Author), Sharit, Joseph (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton CRC Press 2004
• Subjects: Human engineering; Older people
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• Physical Description: xiii, 158 pages 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 0415286115; 0415286123

"As life expectancy increases in the affluent Western world, older workers and the retired form a large and growing proportion of the world's population. Professional working to develop systems and environments need to better accommodate the user needs of the older adult. This new guide provides a practical introduction to human factors and the older adult. It considers the subject primarily from an engineering psychology perspective, heavily grounded in today's scientific knowledge. It shows how current understanding of age-related issues of perception, cognition, and movement control can be applied in practice, and provides a reference source with guidelines and advice for design issues ranging from lighting, computer input device selection, and web site design, to training program development and work task design"--Back cover.