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Title:
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ADAPTING AN ONLINE WEBSITE TO A PALM OS WITH YOUNG ELDERLY PEOPLE |
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Author(s):
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Sergio Sayago , Josep Blat |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-19-4 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Inmaculada J. Martínez |
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Year:
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2006 |
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Edition:
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2 |
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Keywords:
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Young elderly people; mobile web accessibility; PDA. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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115 |
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Last Page:
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118 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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This short paper reports on the adaptation of an online website to a Palm OS with young elderly people and compares the results to a previous experience with young adults. Despite the fact that society is aging and the need for translating many online websites to mobile formats, little research has been carried out with the elderly so far. Nevertheless, mobile web accessibility can open up a wide range of opportunities to them. Within the context of designing a multimodal website for elderly Spanish adults, this paper initially explores the requirement of adaptation of two key aspects, navigational structure and visual appearance of links. The young elderly are able and willing to use PDAs, contrary to negative stereotypes. Nevertheless, mobile interfaces need to take into account their special needs, which mainly stem from age-related changes in functional abilities. Independently of experience with PDAs, the young elderly have great difficulties clicking on standard links, unlike young people. Designing links in the form of buttons overcome them because less precision is required in order to click on links. The young elderly also seem to prefer different navigational structures in mobile and online versions, as opposed to young people. The young elderly benefit from very simple navigational structures, which mainly consist of a small number of pages and clicks. |
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