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Technology is increasingly becoming integral to work, education, and routine tasks such as shopping and banking. At the same time technology is becoming more diverse and the variety of computer-based tools that are available are increasing at an unprecedented rate. In order to function independently and successfully interact with the environment people of all ages must learn how to assimilate technology into their lives. This may present a challenge for older adults given age-related changes in functional abilities such as psychomotor and cognitive skills. This paper describes a systematic, multidisciplinary research program that is directed towards making technology more useful and useable to older adult populations. The intent is to present information on current research in the field of gerontechnology and to demonstrate how a multidisciplinary approach can be used to address the problems of aging and technology. Finally, the paper presents examples of how findings from research can be translated into guidelines for system design.
Czaja et al. (Mon,) studied this question.