HUMAN FACTORS IN AGING--INTERACTION WITH MEDICAL DEVICES AND EQUIPMENT

拟议研究计划的总体目标是开发一个 知识的基础和激励系统和教学的设计 满足医疗器械用户的需求和能力， 设备.该研究将调查视频的人为因素问题- 中介，远程管理的护理，信息传递的指导， 警告信息、医疗器械的使用以及基于医学的 指导和培训。因此，这项研究将进一步基础 理解和知识的问题的技能，收购，转让，和 保留;培训;和最佳信息传输技术。的 研究将解决潜在影响的基本问题 与医疗器械交互时的个人健康和福祉 与设备.研究成果将提供设计和指导 针对特定医疗技术的干预战略，将扩大 知识的范围，并增加我们对人为因素的理解 超出特定设备的医疗保健需求问题 在实验中发现。 目前的研究和开发工作将提高对 原则性的开发与年龄相关的系统设计和增强基础 了解老年人和年轻人的认知能力， 复杂、丰富的任务域。实验室和现场试验的数据 将允许制定一个模型的年龄相关的任务相互作用， 复杂的任务，以解决规模的复杂性， 心理学理论拟议中的研究计划将开辟一条道路， 这一领域的所有其他人为因素研究都可以遵循。的 拟议的努力将创造基础知识和干预措施， 这些原则将提供一个更完整的画面， 医疗系统设计和老年人。这项工作将有助于 医疗系统设计中的人为因素成功课程。

The overarching goal of the proposed research program is to develop a foundation of knowledge and to motivate design of systems and instruction to meet the needs and capabilities of users of medical devices and equipment. The research will investigate human factors issues of video- mediated, remote managed care, information delivery of instruction and warning information, use of medical devices, and medically-based instruction and training. As such, the research will further basic understand and knowledge of issues of skill, acquisition, transfer, and retention; training; and optimum information transmission techniques. The research will address fundamental problems that potentially affect individuals' health and well-being when interacting with medical devices and equipment. Research outcomes will provide design and instruction intervention strategies for specific medical technologies, will broaden the scope of knowledge, and augment our understanding of human factors issues of health care needs that extend beyond the specific devices identified within the experiments. The present research and development effort will improve knowledge for the principled development of age related system design and enhance basic understanding of cognition for both older and young adults in relatively complex, rich task domains. The data from the laboratory and field tests will allow formulation of a model of age-related task interaction for complex tasks to address the important issue of scale of complexity in psychological theory. The proposed program of research will create a road map that all other human factors research in this domain may follow. The proposed effort will create fundamental knowledge as well as intervention principles that will provide a more complete picture of the broad area of medical system design and the older adult. This work will help char the course for human factors success in medical systems design.