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Using Icons to Communicate Privacy Characteristics of Adaptive Assistive Technologies

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Kellie Poneres,

Foad Hamidi,

Aaron Massey,

Amy HurstAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '18: Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Pages 388 - 390

https://doi.org/10.1145/3234695.3241003

Published: 08 October 2018 Publication History

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Adaptive assistive technologies can support the accessibility needs of people with changing abilities by monitoring and adapting to their performance over time. Despite their benefits, these systems can pose privacy threats to users whose data is collected. This issue is amplified by the ambiguity on how user performance data, which might reveal sensitive health data, is used by these applications and whether similar to medical data it is protected from unauthorized sharing with third-parties. In interviews with older adults who experience pointing difficulties, we found that participants felt a lack of agency over their collected pointing data and desired clear communication mechanisms to keep them informed about the privacy characteristics of adaptive assistive systems. Based on this input, we present an icon set, that can be used in online application stores or with the licensing agreements of adaptive systems, to visually communicate privacy characteristics to users.

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Using Icons to Communicate Privacy Characteristics of Adaptive Assistive Technologies
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User interface design

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ASSETS '18: Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

October 2018

508 pages

ISBN:9781450356503

DOI:10.1145/3234695

General Chair:
Faustina Hwang
University of Reading, UK
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Joanna McGrenere
University of British Columbia, Canada
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David Flatla
University of Guelph, Canada

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ASSETS '18: The 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

October 22 - 24, 2018

Galway, Ireland

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Bahrini MZargham NWolff AKipker DSohr KMalaka R(2022)It’s Long and Complicated! Enhancing One-Pager Privacy Policies in Smart Home ApplicationsNordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference10.1145/3546155.3546657(1-13)Online publication date: 8-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3546155.3546657
Barth SIonita DHartel P(2022)Understanding Online Privacy—A Systematic Review of Privacy Visualizations and Privacy by Design GuidelinesACM Computing Surveys10.1145/350228855:3(1-37)Online publication date: 3-Feb-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3502288

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