{"pk":25974,"title":"Individual differences in older adults’ working memory capacity and speed of\nusing touch interfaces","subtitle":null,"abstract":"I examined the effect of the working memory capacity (WMC) of older adult participants on tasks using touch\ninterfaces, by using an extreme-groups design. Older participants (N = 100) completed a single tapping task and verbal,\nnumerical, and spatial WMC tasks. To test whether the response time in the single tapping task differed as a result of the WMC,\nI performed a 2 x 2 Analyses of Variance with WMC (high, n = 25 /low, n = 25) as the between-subjects factors and the tapping\ninterface (a touch pen, a finger, or a computer mouse) as within-subject factors. This indicated a significant interaction between\nthe WMC and the tapping interface. The results suggested that the response time of participants with high WMC was shorter\nthan the response time of participants with a low WMC, when using a touch pen and a computer mouse interface","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hg199dk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kazunori","middle_name":"","last_name":"Otsuka","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Nagasaki","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T23:30:00+05:30","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25974/galley/15598/download/"}]}