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Reflections on Working with Older Adults in Visualization Research
Zack While
While older adults represent a growing proportion of the global population, their presence in visualization research remains limited. In this paper, I present reflections from a se…
Toward Filling a Critical Knowledge Gap: Charting the Interactions of Age with Task and Visualization
Zack While, Ali Sarvghad
We present the results of a study comparing the performance of younger adults (YA) and people in late adulthood (PLA) across ten low-level analysis tasks and five basic visualizati…
Toward Understanding the Experiences of People in Late Adulthood with Embedded Information Displays in the Home
Zack While, Henry Wheeler-Klainberg, Tanja Blascheck +2
Embedded information displays (EIDs) are becoming increasingly ubiquitous on home appliances and devices such as microwaves, coffee machines, fridges, or digital thermostats. These…
Dark Mode or Light Mode? Exploring the Impact of Contrast Polarity on Visualization Performance Between Age Groups
Zack While, Ali Sarvghad
This study examines the impact of positive and negative contrast polarities (i.e., light and dark modes) on the performance of younger adults and people in their late adulthood (PL…