EldernetAs early as the 1980's Eldernet provided increased communication for senior citizens maintaining independent living and for the frail elderly residing in nursing homes. The pioneering multimedia/multimodal user interface to electronic mail was learnable by even the frail elderly with no more than one hour of training. The work was supported by the Pew Foundation. News of Eldernet was carried in the MIT Technology Review, Best of 1990 issue, The American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Newsletter (Sept./Oct. 1990), CompuServe Magazine (Feb. 1990),The Swarthmorean (Sept. 6,1989), and in many other newspapers. The research and development is described in the following scholarly publications:
Christensen, M., Hurwitz, J., Lawrence,R., and Strum, S. (1991), Extending Computers to the Frail Elderly, in Human Aspects in Computing, H.-J. Bullinger, ed., Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 205 - 209. Christensen, M., (1991), Eldernet, in Legacies and Lifestyles for Mature Adults: A Brighter Future Through Science and Technology, Proc. of Conference by same name, Philadelphia, PA, June 15-18. Christensen, M., Chaudhary, S., Gottshall, R., Hartman, J., (1989), EASE: A User Interface for the Elderly, in Designing and Using Human-Computer Interfaces and Knowledge Based Systems, Salvendy and Smith, eds., Elsevier Science Publishers B. V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp 428 - 435. Christensen, M., (1989), User Interfaces for the Elderly: A Research Experience for Undergraduates, Proc. National Educational Computing Conference, Boston, MA, June 20 - 22, pp. 382 - 385. Back to:
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