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Integrating Training, Instruction and Design into Universal User Interfaces

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Elderly people are often considered unable or unwilling to learn novel things or to acquire new skills. The saying “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” has many equivalents in other languages. However, we know from many findings in basic research and from common experience (seniors can even learn to juggle, to play the piano or to speak Chinese) that this widespread assumption is simply wrong.

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Acknowledgments

This research was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the priority program “Age-differentiated Work Systems” (SPP 1184). We would like to thank all members of the ALISA research project: Doreen Struve, Franziska Becker, Lisa Dehne, Diana Dittberner, Laura Felten, Jochen Heyden, Marko Peucker, Anna Uhl, Sebastian Ziller.

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    Michael Sengpiel, Malte Sönksen & Hartmut Wandke

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Sengpiel, M., Sönksen, M., Wandke, H. (2013). Integrating Training, Instruction and Design into Universal User Interfaces. In: Schlick, C., Frieling, E., Wegge, J. (eds) Age-Differentiated Work Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35057-3_14

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