An Analysis of Age, Technology Usage, and Cognitive Characteristics Within Information Retrieval Tasks
Michael Crabb, Vicki L. Hanson · 2016 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)
This paper challenges the common practice of using chronological age as the primary metric for distinguishing user performance in HCI studies, arguing that Internet confidence and cognitive factors — particularly perceptual speed — are far better predictors of browsing…
aging · cognitive accessibility · web search · information retrieval · fluid intelligence