Older Wiser Wired: Features

Recruiting and Working With Older Participants
This article provides tips for recruiting and working with older adults in usability tests.

Working to Bridge the Digital Divide
Mark Carpenter, AARP Services' Director of Web Strategy and Operations, discusses the need to bridge the "grey" digital divide globally in Perspectives, AARP's monthly column on issues that have an impact on the 50+ population worldwide.

Usable Technology for Human Needs: A Renaissance for Computer Users?
Dr. Ben Shneiderman sat down with us to talk about how his message of universal usability goes straight to the heart of AARP's interest in promoting a better experience for older users on the Web.

Designing Web Sites for Older Users
This article compares AARP's findings with earlier research done by Fidelity Investments.

Fidelity Investments' Eight Lessons Learned
Tom Tullis and Ann Chadwick-Dias share the eight lessons they've learned along with implications for designing for older adults on the Web.

Older Users Help Us Study AARP.org
A brief article describing the metholodgy of our 2003 usability testing.

Breaking the Stereotypes of Older Adults Online
Despite the growth and richness of the older online audience, conflicting stereotypes and poor design choices continue to hamper the experience of older users.

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