Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

13 results found tagged aging in place.

CareHub: Smart Screen VUI and Home Appliances Control for Older Adults

Ningjing Sun (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

This demonstration paper presents CareHub, a smart screen prototype that augments voice user interfaces (VUIs) with complementary visual output to help older adults control home appliances more effectively. The research was conducted at the Rhode Isl…
Screen or No Screen? Lessons Learnt from a Real-World Deployment Study of Using Voice Assistants With and Without Touchscreen for Older Adults

Zhenyu Chen, Yijun Lin, Jiaxin Li, Qiuchen Qian, Mingzhe Li, Jikun Peng, Yuhang Zhao (2023) — ASSETS 2023: The 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

This paper presents a 40-day within-subjects deployment study examining how older adults interact with voice assistants (VAs) with and without touchscreen capability. Sixteen participants (mean age 82.5 years), all living independently, used an Amazo…
Designing Accessible, Explainable AI (XAI) Experiences

Christine T. Wolf, Kathryn E. Ringland (2020) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

This paper examines the intersection of explainable AI (XAI) and accessibility, identifying two primary concerns that the XAI field has largely overlooked. The first concern is accessibility at the XAI interface itself. While XAI techniques like visu…