The effects of cognitive ageing on use of complex interfaces

Raghavendra Gudur; Alethea Blackler; Doug Mahar; Vesna Popovic

doi:10.1145/1952222.1952259

The effects of cognitive ageing on use of complex interfaces

Raghavendra Gudur
, Alethea Blackler
, Doug Mahar
, Vesna Popovic

Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Conference contribution › peer-review

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 22nd conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG)
Place of Publication	Australia
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	180-183
Number of pages	4
Volume	1
ISBN (Print)	9781450305020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1952222.1952259
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	22nd Conference of Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) - Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia Duration: 22 Nov 2010 → 26 Nov 2010

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Conference	22nd Conference of Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG)
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Queensland
Period	22/11/10 → 26/11/10

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Gudur, R, Blackler, A, Mahar, D & Popovic, V 2010, The effects of cognitive ageing on use of complex interfaces. in Proceedings of the 22nd conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG). vol. 1, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Australia, pp. 180-183, 22nd Conference of Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG), Queensland, Australia, 22/11/10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1952222.1952259

The effects of cognitive ageing on use of complex interfaces. / Gudur, Raghavendra; Blackler, Alethea; Mahar, Doug et al.
Proceedings of the 22nd conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG). Vol. 1 Australia: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2010. p. 180-183.

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