Results suggest that salient context stimuli may elicit an independent familiarity signal instead of directly impacting on the familiarity signal of the target object.
Long-term studies to understand how ADLs are impacted by the familiarity and usability of other products would provide a great deal of insight into how older adults' preferences and attitudes towards design impacts independence.
As other aspects of the study (pertaining to research questions 2, 3 and 4) have been reported elsewhere [ 25, 26], the findings presented in this paper will focus specifically on the core category that emerged from the study and the impact of familiarity on the choice of home and the success of the transition from the perspective of the family carers.
To assess the impact of familiarity of the partner, play on PN32 (familiar partner) was compared to play on PN33 (novel partner).
This research investigated the impact of familiarity on the use of five faucet designs during 1309 handwashing trials by 27 older adults, who ranged from cognitively intact to the advanced (severe) stages of dementia.
However, the impact of familiarity or human animal relationships on the results of corvid cognition studies has never been investigated systematically.
This paper presents research that methodically investigated the impact of familiarity on product use by investigating the use of five different bathroom faucets by older adults with varying degrees of cognition to complete the activity of handwashing.
Furthermore, it was hypothesised that the impact familiarity has on usability becomes more pronounced as dementia severity increases.
The assumed impact of familiarity is also supported by the fact that even though DMs using PCP performed most steps, they expressed the lowest perceived effort.
To minimize the impact of computer familiarity on the results of computerized testing, we applied "one-key performance" in our study, which means that children completed the test by pressing one particular key only.
This strangeness is crucial to the show's impact; for familiarity was, at least in part, what did him in.
