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Human–computer interaction (HCI) is about knowing the user, which becomes more important when we consider users with different capabilities in a developing country. This paper reports a survey to estimate Indian elderly and disabled users’ perceptual, cognitive and motor capabilities and also their experience and attitude towards technology. We initially identified functional parameters (Biswas and Langdon 2012; Biswas and Robinson 2013) that can affect users’ interaction with electronic devices and combined both objective metrics on functional parameters and subjective attitudes towards technology. Previous surveys either concentrated on ergonomics or demographic details of users in European countries (Langdon and Thimbleby 2010) or focused on a particular device like digital TV or mobile phones (ITU 2011; Narasimhan and Leblois 2012). There is not much reported work on the capabilities and attitude towards technology of the older Indian population, especially from a HCI point of view.
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Biswas, P., Langdon, P.M. (2014). An HCI Survey on Elderly Users in India. In: Langdon, P., Lazar, J., Heylighen, A., Dong, H. (eds) Inclusive Designing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05095-9_1
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