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Designing for Older Adults
Principles and Creative Human Factors Approaches, Second Edition
Series: Human Factors and Aging Series
The first edition of Designing for Older Adults: Principles and Creative Human Factors Approaches broke ground as an easily accessible source of information, a primer on designing for older adults. In this second edition, the authors, as any good human factors practitioner would, have considered...
Published March 25th 2009 by CRC Press
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Designing for Older Adults: Principles and Creative Human Factors Approaches
Principles and Creative Human Factors Approaches
This new guide explores the subject of human factors and the older adult primarily from an engineering psychology perspective, heavily grounded in today's scientific knowledge. A compilation of the authors' knowledge, research, and experience, the book shows readers how current understanding of...
Published February 26th 2004 by Taylor & Francis
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Designing for Older Adults
Principles and Creative Human Factors Approaches
Series: Human Factors and Aging Series
As life expectancy increases, older workers and the retired form a large and growing proportion of the world’s population. Professionals 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...
Published January 13th 2004 by CRC Press
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Human Factors Interventions for the Health Care of Older Adults
Written by experts in the field, this book explores the relevance and contributions of the field of human factors to health care. It begins with overviews of the field of human factors and the primary research methodologies of that field and goes on to review the cognitive issues that must be...
Published July 31st 2001 by CRC Press
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Aging and Skilled Performance
Advances in Theory and Applications
The term "skill" encompasses an array of topics and issues. For example, individuals are skilled in a variety of domains such as chess, typing, air traffic control, or knitting; researchers study skill in a variety of ways, including speed of acquisition, accuracy of performance, and retention over...
Published August 31st 1996 by Psychology Press