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When designing technology for older users, several psychological aspects need to be taken into account. With increasing age, certain abilities decline making interaction with interfaces more challenging and time consuming. Understanding problems older users face when using new technologies is the key to improving the design according to their requirements. Several rules can be applied and techniques can be used to support perception and analysis of information through the interface as well as the appropriate action selection and action implementation. This chapter gives a short overview of psychological factors relevant for successful use of technical devices and presents some examples how to support older users by compensating for their age-related declines.
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This research is part of the project “FANS—Pedestrian Assistance System for Older Road Users” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, funding No. 16SV7112) and supervised by VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH.
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Wiczorek, R. (2018). Psychological Issues for Developing Systems for Older Users. In: Karafillidis, A., Weidner, R. (eds) Developing Support Technologies. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01836-8_10
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