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SUMMARY:The Influence of Ageing on Interaction and Technology - Ana Medeir
 os\, Engineering Design Centre
DTSTART:20080206T163000Z
DTEND:20080206T173000Z
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CONTACT:Julie Jupp
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: People are living longer and the world population is
  ageing. At the individual level\, ageing leads to functional losses and c
 auses behavioural changes. These losses and changes affect the quality of 
 product interaction. However\, in many cases design itself unnecessarily c
 ompromises product interface by failing to consider the needs of the older
  user and is therefore also responsible for poor interaction.\n\nThe quali
 ty of interaction reflects how successful a product may be and is critical
  to the uptake of technology. To date\, only a few studies have addressed 
 the use of products by older adults. There is a clear need to further inve
 stigate older user responses and relate them to product interaction. The p
 resent work focuses on this need and its implications for design practice.
  \n\nBased on the literature\, this work proposes four levels of response 
 in product interaction – physical\, sensory\, cognitive and affective. T
 he sequence and importance of these levels of response may vary according 
 to users’ age and capabilities. To understand these variations users wer
 e clustered in three groups - youth\, adults and elderly. It was hypothesi
 sed that for each group there is a dominant level of response – sensory 
 for youth\, cognitive for adults and affective for elderly. To test this h
 ypothesis an empirical study is planned. This presentation will summarize 
 the literature and describe in outline the planned empirical study.
LOCATION:Meeting Rooms 1A+1B\, (off the Oatly Lab)\, 2nd Floor\, Engineeri
 ng Department
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