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TY - JOUR
T1 - Use of cell phones by elders with impairments
T2 - Overall appraisal, satisfaction, and suggestions
AU - Mann, W.C.
AU - Helal, Sumi
AU - Davenport, R.D.
AU - Justiss, M.D.
AU - Tomita, M.R.
AU - Kemp, B.J.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Through the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for Successful Aging (RERC-Tech-Aging) elder perspectives on cell phone designs and features were explored. Six-hundred and sixty-five participants (596 elders with disabilities, 69 adults with disabilities) from Northern Florida, Southern California, and Western New York were surveyed through face-to-face interviews, phone interviews, or mailed surveys. The survey addressed satisfaction, importance, frequency of use, methods for learning, barriers to use, views on features, and ways the cell phone had helped. The majority of elders (60%) valued their cell phone, and a large proportion (87%) use the cell phone for emergencies. Only one third of elders reported using their cell phone daily. Suggestions for improving phone design included increasing button size (50% of subjects), increasing display size (29% of subjects), increasing overall size of the cell phone (24% of subjects), and decreasing the complexity of the phone. © 2004 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.
AB - Through the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for Successful Aging (RERC-Tech-Aging) elder perspectives on cell phone designs and features were explored. Six-hundred and sixty-five participants (596 elders with disabilities, 69 adults with disabilities) from Northern Florida, Southern California, and Western New York were surveyed through face-to-face interviews, phone interviews, or mailed surveys. The survey addressed satisfaction, importance, frequency of use, methods for learning, barriers to use, views on features, and ways the cell phone had helped. The majority of elders (60%) valued their cell phone, and a large proportion (87%) use the cell phone for emergencies. Only one third of elders reported using their cell phone daily. Suggestions for improving phone design included increasing button size (50% of subjects), increasing display size (29% of subjects), increasing overall size of the cell phone (24% of subjects), and decreasing the complexity of the phone. © 2004 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.
KW - Cellular phones
KW - Equipment design
KW - Frail elderly
KW - adult
KW - aged
KW - article
KW - controlled study
KW - disability
KW - emergency health service
KW - equipment design
KW - female
KW - geriatric care
KW - human
KW - interview
KW - learning
KW - major clinical study
KW - male
KW - mobile phone
KW - patient satisfaction
KW - postal mail
KW - telephone
KW - United States
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 49
EP - 57
JO - Technology and Disability
JF - Technology and Disability
SN - 1055-4181
IS - 1
ER -