Laura Urban Perry is a Seattle-based designer and has provided interface design for BigScreenLive. Laura took an active role in the creation of electronic publishing tools at Aldus and Adobe - the developers of PageMaker, Photoshop, and Acrobat PDF. Laura has led consumer and corporate user interface design efforts for Amazon, America Online, Hewlett Packard, [...]

There has been a lot of interest in the potential for computer games as a way to help exercise your brain. Many seniors are interested in these products. I was recently passed this interesting review of some of these products, by Kelly Greene of the Wall St Journal.

eMarketer has released some interesting findings regarding Boomers online behavior - see You’ve Come a Long Way, Boomers, and You’re Online Now!
The author of the report, Lisa Phillips, makes the point that older Boomers go online “to get things done, such as finding information on products and services, shopping, and staying in touch with friends and [...]

In these days of ‘cloud computing’ its possible to have all your data stored on a central server somewhere ‘in the cloud’ and to access your information from any computer that can connect to the server. With the BigScreenLive product the way we make this easy is to provide our software on a USB memory [...]

Busy families, and in particular Moms, use computers to keep in touch, share photos, and do web research. If only grandparents were online it would be so much simpler! But many seniors find computers hard to use and families who try to help their seniors have a difficult time. As one of our customers said [...]