Abstract
To investigate how people learn to use some ICT equipment, we used Groton Maze Learning Task (GMLT) with embedding some guiding information. In the experiment, we set three conditions: One with the forward-direction guides (easy to find their meaning), the other with the backward-direction guides (difficult to find their meaning), and the control condition (no guide information), examining how young and older adults (YA/OA) learned to use them to find out the correct route. The results showed the both age groups with the forward-direction guides could use the guiding information, showing decrease of the duration time and legal errors. In contrast, though YA with the backward-direction guides showed the same size learning facilitation as the forward-direction condition, OA didn’t show any privilege with the backward-direction guides. Those findings indicated the difficulties to use backward-direction guiding for OA may make their learning difficulties when they try to use some ICT equipment.
