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Adaptive training interfaces for less-experienced, elderly users of electronic devices

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  • Carmen Bruder
  • Lucienne Blessing
  • Hartmut Wandke

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A great number of complex electronic devices are now part of our everyday lives. While many of us learn to handle these products by trial and error; others, especially older users with little experience in using electronic devices, need support. In order to allow the user maximum flexibility in terms of learning time and location, a training programme is presented which is implemented as part of the software embedded in the product itself. Particular focus is placed on the effect of adaptive training on learning. In this study, the training versions differed in their ability to adjust their complexity to the user's experience (adaptive user interface complexity) and their capability to support the learner by prompting them during the learning process (adaptive training advice). The results show that the adjustment of complexity had a positive effect on users’ experience: elderly users who trained with an adaptive interface were more successful in learning to use a mobile phone. Adaptive training advice, however, was found to have no significant effects on learners’ success and reduced their self-efficacy. This work offers guidelines on how to design integrated training applications for electronic devices that successfully help elderly users with little prior experience.

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  • Carmen Bruder & Lucienne Blessing & Hartmut Wandke, 2014. "Adaptive training interfaces for less-experienced, elderly users of electronic devices," Behaviour and Information Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(1), pages 4-15, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:tbitxx:v:33:y:2014:i:1:p:4-15
    DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2013.833649
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