The impact of age on website usability

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Highlights：

• An age-related website usability model is proposed and validated.

• Age leads to declining levels spatial ability and mental model accuracy.

• Age impacts website usability through diminishing cognitive skills.

• Disorientation reveals both expected and surprising findings.

• Implications of different conceptualizations of the age construct are discussed.

摘要

•An age-related website usability model is proposed and validated.•Age leads to declining levels spatial ability and mental model accuracy.•Age impacts website usability through diminishing cognitive skills.•Disorientation reveals both expected and surprising findings.•Implications of different conceptualizations of the age construct are discussed.

论文关键词：Website usability,Older adults,Mental model,Disorientation

论文评审过程：Available online 2 June 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.05.003