Exploring Accessible Smartwatch Interactions for People with Upper Body Motor Impairments

Malu, Meethu; Chundury, Pramod; Findlater, Leah

doi:10.1145/3173574.3174062

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“…An extensive literature exists on assistive technology for users with motor impairments and a variety of computing devices, from desktop PCs [30,31] to tabletops [61], mobile devices [49,60,63,105], and wearables [55][56][57]. This literature has reported user performance with a wide range of input modalities, from touch input [31,38,61] to gesture [13,85,91], voice [18,40,41], eye gaze [16,46,70,102,103], and brain-computer input [28,62].…”

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“…On the other hand, wearable devices are afxed to the body and can be interacted with concurrently and alongside input on smartphones and tablets, creating thus the premises for alternative input modalities or mixed input for controlling appliances in the home, the TV included, according to each user's preferences and motor abilities. Prior work has started looking at the usability of smart wearables, such as smartglasses [56] and smartwatches [55], and an opinion paper [35] discussed the opportunities of smart rings for people with upper body motor impairments.…”

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“…Despite such accessibility problems and the large body of work on assistive input for people with motor impairments for a variety of computing devices [30,41,55,61,63,91,105], accessibility challenges for television and smart TVs have been less studied. One reason may be the recent focus on input modalities designed to complement or replace the TV remote control, such as gesture and voice input incorporated by many TV manufacturers into their products [52, 79,80].…”

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Coping, Hacking, and DIY: Reframing the Accessibility of Interactions with Television for People with Motor Impairments

Ungurean

Vatavu

2021

ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

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We conduct an examination of the accessibility challenges experienced by people with upper body motor impairments when interacting with television. We report fndings from a study with N=41 people with motor impairments (spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy) and document their challenges and coping strategies for using the TV remote control, but also their television watching experience and expectations of suitable assistive technology for television. Our results show that, despite several accessible remote control products available on the market, the majority of our participants preferred to DIY and hack, and to adopt coping strategies to be able to use conventional TV remote controls. We contrast their experience against that of a control group with N=41 people without impairments. We refect about the DIY culture and people with motor impairments, and we propose future work directions to increase the accessibility of interactions with television. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Accessibility technologies.

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Coping, Hacking, and DIY: Reframing the Accessibility of Interactions with Television for People with Motor Impairments

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Vatavu

2021

ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

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“…Generally, there are many other interesting domains of application for which elicitation studies have been conducted ( Table 3) like mid-air manipulations in Virtual Reality [20,35,48,59], Smart Home environments [7,25,38,46] Mobile Devices [4,43,47,49] for Human-Robot/Drone manipulation [45,57,58], Augmented Reality [33,39], Desktop computer [30,50], In-Vehicle secondary driving task [52,56] Smartwatches [11,32], Gaming [19], CAD [53], Text readers [31], Operating rooms [23] and Digital exhibition [21].…”

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Gesture Elicitation Studies for Mid-Air Interaction: A Review

Vogiatzidakis

Koutsabasis

2018

MTI

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Mid-air interaction involves touchless manipulations of digital content or remote devices, based on sensor tracking of body movements and gestures. There are no established, universal gesture vocabularies for mid-air interactions with digital content or remote devices based on sensor tracking of body movements and gestures. On the contrary, it is widely acknowledged that the identification of appropriate gestures depends on the context of use, thus the identification of mid-air gestures is an important design decision. The method of gesture elicitation is increasingly applied by designers to help them identify appropriate gesture sets for mid-air applications. This paper presents a review of elicitation studies in mid-air interaction based on a selected set of 47 papers published within 2011-2018. It reports on: (1) the application domains of mid-air interactions examined; (2) the level of technological maturity of systems at hand; (3) the gesture elicitation procedure and its variations; (4) the appropriateness criteria for a gesture; (5) participants number and profile; (6) user evaluation methods (of the gesture vocabulary); (7) data analysis and related metrics. This paper confirms that the elicitation method has been applied extensively but with variability and some ambiguity and discusses under-explored research questions and potential improvements of related research.Multimodal Technologies and Interact. 2018, 2, 65 2 of 21 such thing as a universal gesture vocabulary for every application" [15]. Thus, the identification of appropriate gestures for mid-air user interactions in terms of criteria like discoverability, memorability, performance, reliability and comfort, is an important design decision. This must be made at the early stages of system development and it severely affects the development course of every mid-air application project as well as the user experience (UX) of intended users.Emerging from the field of participatory design, gesture elicitation studies have been widely applied to help designers select the most appropriate gesture set for a given application. Although the method does not have a strict procedure, the main approach is to first define what operations (called "referents") have to be executed through gestures, then ask the end users to propose at least one gesture that they find preferable for each referent and finally to extract the gesture vocabulary after analysing the collected data [16]. The goal of a gesture elicitation study is to extract "good" gestures, which according to Morris et al. [17] are "gestures that meet certain design criteria such as discoverability, ease-of-performance, memorability, or reliability."Over the last few years, several elicitation studies have been conducted to identify mid-air gesture vocabularies for many different application domains and contexts, devices, types of digital content and tracking technologies subsumed. A survey of elicitation studies of mid-air interaction is useful to HCI researchers and interaction designers for deepening th...

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“…While these results show wearable touchpads offer one promising solution for accessible HMD input, practical issues like interference with everyday activities and accidental taps should also be considered in future work. To examine accessible smartwatch gestures, we employed a participatory approach with eleven people with upper body motor impairments [78]. Participants were asked to elicit gestures for common actions (e.g., view notification) on the touchscreen and non-touchscreen (bezel, wristband and skin near the watch) areas of the smartwatch.…”

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Designing and implementing accessible wearable interactions for people with motor impairments

Malu

2018

SIGACCESS Access. Comput.

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Emerging wearable technologies like head-mounted displays (e.g., Google Glass) and wrist-worn devices (e.g., Fitbit, Apple Watch 2.0) are always available, have the potential to provide quick access to information and offer relatively hands-free interaction compared to smartphones. Additionally, they can collect continuous health and fitness-related information of their wearer. For people with disabilities, these technologies may also offer possibilities of independent use. However, people with upper body motor impairments may not be able to gain from the potential benefits that these wearables can offer. For example, challenges related to performing multi-touch gestures and text entry, may magnify as the interaction space of some wearables gets even smaller. In my dissertation, I explore the potential impacts and assess the accessibility of existing mainstream wearable technologies, including head-mounted displays, smartwatches, and fitness trackers. Consequently, I implement and evaluate accessible wearable interactions for people with motor impairments for these wearables, specifically head-mounted displays and smartwatches.

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Exploring Accessible Smartwatch Interactions for People with Upper Body Motor Impairments

Cited by 44 publications

References 39 publications

Coping, Hacking, and DIY: Reframing the Accessibility of Interactions with Television for People with Motor Impairments

Coping, Hacking, and DIY: Reframing the Accessibility of Interactions with Television for People with Motor Impairments

Gesture Elicitation Studies for Mid-Air Interaction: A Review

Designing and implementing accessible wearable interactions for people with motor impairments

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