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Towards Supporting Individuals with Situational Impairments in Inhospitable Environments

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Flynn Wolf,

Ravi Kuber,

Dianne Pawluk,

Brian TurnageAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '17: Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Pages 349 - 350

https://doi.org/10.1145/3132525.3134783

Published: 19 October 2017 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe an approach to develop alerts for individuals experiencing situationally-induced impairments and disabilities (SIIDs) in inhospitable environments, with a view to support situational awareness and decision making. Our research focuses on the needs of firefighters whose visual and auditory channels may be restricted while performing tasks, resulting in cues sometimes being missed. Through a series of contextual interviews, scenarios have been developed focusing on areas where alerts are required. A participatory-approach has been adopted with the aim of developing perceivable, meaningful and respected alerts, designed to better resist the impacts of SIIDs.

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Towards Supporting Individuals with Situational Impairments in Inhospitable Environments
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Accessibility
    1. Empirical studies in accessibility

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ASSETS '17: Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

October 2017

450 pages

ISBN:9781450349260

DOI:10.1145/3132525

General Chair:
Amy Hurst
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
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Program Chairs:
Leah Findlater
University of Washington, USA
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Meredith Ringel Morris
Microsoft Research, USA

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situationally-induced impairments and disabilities

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ASSETS '17: The 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

October 20 - November 1, 2017

Maryland, Baltimore, USA

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Kong JZhong MFogarty JWobbrock J(2024)The Ability-Based Design Mobile Toolkit (ABD-MT): Developer Support for Runtime Interface Adaptation Based on Users' AbilitiesProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36765248:MHCI(1-26)Online publication date: 24-Sep-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3676524
Hoeber OHarvey MDewan Sagar SPointon M(2021)The effects of simulated interruptions on mobile search tasksJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology10.1002/asi.2457973:6(777-796)Online publication date: 9-Oct-2021
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Wobbrock J(2019)Situationally-Induced Impairments and DisabilitiesWeb Accessibility10.1007/978-1-4471-7440-0_5(59-92)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7440-0_5

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