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Title: The effects of cognitive ageing on use of complex interfaces
Author/Creator: Reddy, G R | Blackler, A | Mahar, Doug P | Popovic, V
Description: This paper discusses an experiment investigating the effects of cognitive ageing and prior-experience with technology on using complex interfaces intuitively. Overall 37 participants, between the ages of 18 to 83, participated in this study. All participants were assessed for their cognitive abilities and prior-experience with technology. It was anticipated that the Central Executive function (a component of Working Memory) would emerge as one of the important cognitive functions in using complex interfaces. This was found to be the case with the strongest negative correlation occurring between sustained attention (one of the functions of the Central Executive), the time to complete the task and number of errors made by the participants. Copyright the author(s) and CHISIG.
Relation: 22nd Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OZCHI '10): Design - Interaction - Participation, Brisbane, Australia 22-26 November 2010
Relation: Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference / B. Kraal (ed): pp.180-183
Relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1952222.1952259
Year: 2010
Publisher: Association for Computer Machinery
Subject: FoR 1702 (Cognitive Sciences) | prior-experience | working memory | central executive function | attention | ageing | complex interfaces

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