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Re-establishing Interaction Through Design of Alternative Interfaces

Authors:
Suhas Govind Joshi

Keywords: psychomotor abilities; elderly; radio; assistive technology

Abstract:
This paper explores new opportunities for elderly people who are no longer able to use their radio due to changes in psychomotor capacities in hands and fingers. We explore whether three alternative self-developed radio interfaces can provide these elderly people with new interaction mechanisms in the radio that allow them to re-establish use. The three radios are used to conduct measurements of psychomotor performance among 52 elderly participants. Our main findings indicate that providing elderly people suffering from reduced psychomotor capacities with appropriate interfaces cannot only re-establish interaction but also yield performance scores comparable to the scores of elderly people without any apparent reduction in psychomotor capacities. We further present our additional findings from a quantitative analysis of performance and discuss discovered opportunities.

Pages: 220 to 229

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: April 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-470-1

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016