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Stephen S Intille

Designing a User Interface "Age Suit"
Stephen Intille
Thu Jan 10, 17, 24, 04-05:30pm, 1CC, 4th floor, See website for directions

No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Interest in designing devices for everyone, young and old

It is challenging to develop human-computer digital and physical interfaces that work for people of all ages. Designs that work well for the elderly, however, are usually easier for everyone to use. We will spend three sessions brainstorming about how to design a "user interface age suit," basing our observations on research we dig up about changes to the human body as it ages. This suit would help a designer in his or twenties experience a user interface from the perspective of someone who is 70 or 80 years old -- when flexibility and visual and auditory sensitivity are diminished. We will start by studying Ford's "Third Age Suit", and then we will consider what we would need to add or change to make a suit for designers of digital and physical interfaces. If we have sufficient interest from participants, we will make a plan to construct our suit for use at MIT.
Web: http://architecture.mit.edu/~intille/iap02/
Contact: Stephen Intille, N51-340, 452-2346, intille@mit.edu


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