Applied Experimental Psychology course

Professor: Wendy Rogers

Teaching Assistant: Jenay Beer, Sara McBride

Description

School of Psychology Professor and Co-Director of the Human Factors and Aging Lab, Wendy Rogers, taught the senior capstone course, "Applied Experimental Psychology" this semester.  The class focused on developing design specifications for some product or system to support Aging-in-Place. A "Panel of Elders" was assembled to serve as subject matter experts and as potential clients for the class.  The following group chose to demonstrate their projects at this event:

Projects

Students: Ashley Harill et al

After consulting literature and a panel of elders, our senior design
group became aware of several flaws in the design of prescription
bottles and labels.  While the FDA has established guidelines for some
of the content on prescription labels, no other stipulations were
found.  Therefore, our project focuses on the problems older adults have
with prescription bottle use, prescription label comprehension and the
concerns these problems raise.  We have compiled a list of
recommendations for changes the FDA could mandate in order to improve
the usability and health literacy of prescriptions.  Although our
recommendations are tailored for healthy, cognitively intact, older
adults with corrected to normal vision, we believe that by following
these recommendations the FDA will be able to decrease health-care costs
and benefit a wide range of prescription users.