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1993
 
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Graafmans, Jan A. M. and Bouma, Herman (1993): Gerontechnology, Fitting Task and Environment to the Elderly. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 37th Annual Meeting 1993. pp. 182-186.

“Gerontechnology includes the research and development of techniques and technological products, based on the knowledge of aging processes, for the benefit of a preferred living and working environment and adapted medical care for the elderly. Physical and mental fitness are prerequisites to the satisfactory performance of daily tasks. Functionality decreases when perceptive motor abilities or skills diminish, when task demands are too high and/or when the product characteristics, the user-interface or the environmental conditions are in conflict with human skills. The introduction emphasizes the difference between approaching the elderly as patients or consumers. A concept of social interaction and active participation is described. It is discussed which support can be offered by technology and what the state of the art in gerontechnology is.”

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Graafmans, Jan A. M. and Brouwers, Tonny (1989): Gerontechnology, The Modelling of Normal Aging. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 33rd Annual Meeting 1989. pp. 187-190.

“Demographics announce the rise of an array of small and bigger challenges, which cannot be taken up adequately by a single research discipline, industrial branch or central administration. The segregation and segmentation of our society causes limiting conditions in facing the most substantial and acute societal problems. The complexity and versatility of these problems require a policy that has to be conceptualized. The concept "gerontechnology" is introduced to cover and provide some coherent elements in order to establish a strategy, that is aiming at an efficient and effective use of essential resources, to match developments induced by an aging population. Normal aging processes can be described within this concept using the man-machine-environment interaction model that is loaded with sets of variables that are characteristic for an aging human function. Sets of variables are distinguished at three levels with increasing complexity from basic research on parameters of aging, via human factors research on grey human factors, to market research on daily consumer needs of the elderly. Two projects are presented as examples of respectively an industrial and a basic research approach in this domain.”

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