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Social Ageing, Informatization, and Cognitive Tasks Required for Human Memory in Daily Lives: Problems Observed in a Usability Test for Home-Use Medical Equipment

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Abstract

Various phenomena related to older people’s lives are now being widely observed in Japan’s super-aged society. It is important to know that those phenomena are not only related to cognitive ageing, but also to many circumstantial changes accompanying social ageing and social digital–informatization. After introducing some topics, concepts, or models to increase our understanding of these compound situations, we report an experiment using the usability testing method on home use medical equipment, as an example of the complex combining of those three factors.

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    Although in the place of passwords, identification systems based on physical possession of keys or some means of biometric matching (e.g., fingerprints or retinal scans) have been proposed and used, each method has its own disadvantages, and the password method remains the main means of identification.

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    Etsuko T. Harada

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Harada, E.T. (2017). Social Ageing, Informatization, and Cognitive Tasks Required for Human Memory in Daily Lives: Problems Observed in a Usability Test for Home-Use Medical Equipment. In: Tsukiura, T., Umeda, S. (eds) Memory in a Social Context. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56591-8_18

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