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The effects of cognitive ageing on the use of complex interfaces

Gudur, Raghavendra R., Blackler, Alethea L., Mahar, Douglas P., & Popovic, Vesna (2010) The effects of cognitive ageing on the use of complex interfaces. In Proceedings of The 22nd Annual Conference on the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group : Design - Interaction - Participation, ACM & CHISIG, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland.

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    Abstract

    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.

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    ID Code: 39177
    Item Type: Conference Paper
    Keywords: Prior Experience, Working Memory, Central Executive Function, Attention, Ageing, Complex Interfaces
    ISBN: 9781450305020
    Subjects: Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > INFORMATION SYSTEMS (080600) > Computer-Human Interaction (080602)
    Divisions: Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
    Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Health
    Past > Schools > School of Design
    Current > Schools > School of Psychology & Counselling
    Copyright Owner: Copyright 2010 the Author(s) and CHISIG
    Copyright Statement: Additional copies are available at the ACM Digital Library (http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm) or ordered from the CHISIG secretary (secretary@chisig.org)
    Deposited On: 14 Mar 2011 08:11
    Last Modified: 01 Mar 2012 00:26

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