How Older and Younger Adults Differ in Their Approach to Problem Solving on a Complex Website
Peter G. Fairweather · 2008 · Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)
This IBM Research paper challenges the prevailing assumption that older adults use the web in the same way as younger adults, just more slowly and less accurately. The study examined how 28 participants aged 18-73 navigated a complex newspaper website to solve a realistic…
aging · web navigation · cognitive accessibility · usability · older adults