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Designing for all in the house

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The elderly population in the world is increasing rapidly and consequently so is demand for new technologies that allow them to live independently. Facilitating the control of household appliances and the home environment through various devices that encompass multimodal and ambient interfaces seems a way to achieve this. We tested three modalities of output - audio, visual and multimodal - using two different devices - palmtop and laptop - as realistic prototypes of household appliance controllers. Through experimental design the applicability of using icons and musical earcons as a medium to transmit information to the user and its suitability to the home was investigated. Results showed participants performed markedly better using the multimodal and visual interfaces than with the audio interface. In addition both groups performed better using the palmtop as compared to the laptop.

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CLIHC '05: Proceedings of the 2005 Latin American conference on Human-computer interaction
October 2005
361 pages
ISBN:1595932240
DOI:10.1145/1111360
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