Technology skill and age: what will be the same 20 years from now?
Technology skill and age: what will be the same 20 years from now?
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DOI：
10.1007/s10209-011-0224-1
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发表时间：
2011-11-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Hanson, Vicki L.
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作者：
Hanson, Vicki L.
当前针对老年人的计算机研究仅仅着眼于短期问题吗？或者，困扰当代人的技术问题，是否也会在当今精通技术的年轻一代“变老”时成为问题？本文考虑了影响使用新技术能力的年龄相关和经验相关问题。如果不更多地考虑老年用户的技能，20年后的应用程序和设备很可能会发生变化，以至于“老年”一代发现自己面临着一系列他们几乎不了解且通常无法接触的技术。最近的证据表明，老年人在浏览网页方面具有特殊的优势。对这些优势进行更全面的调查，以及如何针对老年用户的优势进行优化设计，有可能解决这一日益重要的人口群体对可用技术的需求。
Is current research on computing by older adults simply looking at a short-term problem? Or will the technology problems that plague the current generation also be problematic for today's tech-savvy younger generations when they become "old"? This paper considers age-related and experience-related issues that affect ability to use new technology. Without more consideration of the skills of older users, it is likely that applications and devices 20 years from now will have changed such that this "older" generation finds themselves confronting an array of technologies that they little understand and find generally inaccessible. Recent evidence suggests that older adults bring specific strengths to Web browsing. A fuller investigation of these strengths and how to design to optimize for strengths of older users has the potential to address the need for usable technology for this increasingly important demographic.