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While children with disabilities often face barriers to play including reduced time, exclusion, and ill-suited toys, impacting their development, social robots provide the potential to help: they can motivate children, increase task engagement, and ...

Biometric technologies are often advertised as a user-friendly way to authenticate individuals based on behavioural or biological characteristics. In recent years, biometric recognition has become ubiquitous in various application domains ranging from ...

Although zoomorphic robots are already popular as companions in some parts of the world, like Japan, they are still a niche product in Germany and are primarily present in academia. In this study, we analyse the effects of the new version of the ...

In this paper, we describe the accessibility challenges that people with disabilities face when making music in groups. Therefore we present a collection of experience reports from interviews with four stakeholders who are working in this field and ...

There are currently over one billion people living with some form of disability worldwide. The continuous increase in new technologies in today's society comes with an increased risk in security. A fundamental knowledge of cybersecurity should be a ...

Every year, many research projects are conducted within the field of interactive information retrieval on a broad diversity of users. Over the last few decades, an increasing number of studies have addressed user groups that may be defined as minority ...

Trends in government services call for greater insertion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their processes, which can bring opportunities for services to be more inclusive, participatory and in turn to establish new relationships ...

When trying to understand people's perspectives, qualitative researchers in HCI often use methods which assume participants can easily communicate verbally. There are few dedicated resources in HCI which provide an overview of qualitative methods to ...

Accessibility is an important part of designing and building products, yet many computer science students are not receiving any instruction on how to design for accessibility. Teach Access was founded in 2015 as a joint endeavor between industry and ...

The availability of computer science education in primary and secondary schools in the United States has grown rapidly over the last decade. Computing education research in K-12 has been increasing as well. In this study, we conducted a longitudinal ...

Globally, increasing numbers of people experience accessibility issues related to technology use. At the University ofDundee, we have developed a degree programme that aims to graduate socially-aware computing scientists who can develop for a range of ...

The past decade has seen an exponential growth in the capabilities and deployment of artificial intelligence systems based on deep neural networks. These are visible through the speech recognition and natural language processing of Alexa/Siri/Google ...

Speech and language disorders in children account for about 6% of the population, and if not treated adequately they persist. Thus, affected children may experience long-term problems such as both diminished socialization and literacy in later life. ...

This paper describes a process of collaborative sense-making through co-designing a reflective poster. We used this method in the 'Empowering Hacks' project which gathered two non-academic individuals with disabilities (authors 2 & 3) and a non-disabled ...

Power wheelchairs (PW) are an example of an assistive technology in that they are used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities [6]. As seen in [5] [3], the commercially available products do not provide ...

As an alternative to social co-robots, or collaborative robots, displacing workers in the workforce, social robots may, in the future, be used to augment workers with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and improve their work environments. ...

Advances and proliferation of digital technologies have greatly expanded access to the information society for people with disabilities. Yet when considering which devices, applications, or cutting-edge immersive virtual environments to explore, people ...

To allow access to educational information for all people, including those with disabilities, the Internet and websites should be accessible and usable. Websites should provide timely and precise information effectively, efficiently and satisfactorily. ...

This paper presents a proposed smartphone application for the unique SmartAbility Framework that supports interaction with technology for people with reduced physical ability, through focusing on the actions that they can perform independently. The ...

Early Intervention Services support children with disabilities in their development from early age on. To this end, therapeutic toys are regularly employed within training sessions. These toys often draw on interactive elements to make exercising more ...