
AGE,TECHNOLOGY PRIOR EXPERIENCE AND
EASE OF USE:WHO’S DOING WHAT?
Mike Bradley
1
, Joy Goodman-Deane
1
, Sam Waller
1
, Raji Tenneti
2
,
Pat Langdon
1
& P. John Clarkson
1
1
Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge, UK
2
University of Western Australia, Australia
Designers often assume that their users will have some digital
technological prior experience. We examined these levels of prior
experience by surveying frequency and ease of technology use with
a range of technology products. 362 people participated as part of
a UK nationwide larger survey of people’s capabilities and char-
acteristics to inform product design. We found that frequency and
self-reported ...