This subcommittee is suitable for contributions related to the design or study of technology for people with disabilities and/or older adults. Accessibility papers are those that deal with technology design for or use by people with disabilities including sensory, motor, and cognitive impairments. Aging papers are broadly categorized as those dealing with technology design for or use by people in the later stages of life. Relationships with technology are complex and multifaceted; we welcome contributions across a range of topics aimed at benefiting relevant stakeholder groups and not solely limited to concerns of making technology accessible. Note that if your paper primarily concerns interactions with health data or with healthcare providers, then the Health subcommittee is probably a better fit, whereas papers reflecting on how technologies are used and/or designing interfaces and interactions suited to specific needs are better suited for this subcommittee. We strongly suggest that authors review this Accessible Writing Guide in order to adopt a writing style that refers to stakeholder groups using appropriate terminology. Submissions to this subcommittee will be evaluated in part based on their inclusion of and potential impact on their target user groups and other stakeholders. This subcommittee balances the rigor required in all CHI submissions with awareness of the challenges of conducting research in these important areas. This subcommittee welcomes all contributions related to accessibility, and aging, including empirical, theoretical, conceptual, methodological, design, and systems contributions.
Subcommittee Chairs
- Cosmin Munteanu, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Aisling Kelliher, Virginia Tech
Contact: sc.access@chi2022.acm.org
Associate Chairs
- Vero Vanden Abeele, KU Leuven
- Dragan Ahmetovic, University of Milan
- Josep Blat, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Danielle Bragg, Microsoft Research
- Robin Brewer, University of Michigan
- Michael Crabb, University of Dundee
- Mingming Fan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Benjamin Gorman, Bournemouth University
- Anhong Guo, University of Michigan
- Foad Hamidi, University of Maryland
- Yasamin Heshmat, Electronic Arts
- Wilko Heuten, OFFIS Institute for IT
- Sooyeon Lee, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Wanda Li, University of Guelph
- Kathleen McCoy, University of Delaware
- Timothy Neate, King’s College London
- Vania Neris, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
- Emma Nicol, University of Strathclyde
- Teresa K. O’Leary, Northeastern University
- Fabio Paterno, CNR Italy
- Helen Petrie, University of York
- Kyle Rector, University of Iowa
- Sayan Sarcar, Birmingham City University
- Sergio Sayago, Universitat de Lleida
- Laurianne Sitbon, Queensland University of Technology Brisbane
- Frank Steinicke, University of Hamburg
- Jenny Waycott, University of Melbourne
- Shaomei Wu, Facebook
Example Papers
- Screen Recognition: Creating Accessibility Metadata for Mobile Applications from Pixels
- Technology Adoption and Learning Preferences for Older Adults:: Evolving Perceptions, Ongoing Challenges, and Emerging Design Opportunities
- Making as Expression: Informing Design with People with Complex Communication Needs through Art Therapy
- SayWAT: Augmenting Face-to-Face Conversations for Adults with Autism
- Addressing Age-Related Bias in Sentiment Analysis
- Smart Touch: Improving Touch Accuracy for People with Motor Impairments with Template Matching
- Methods for Evaluation of Imperfect Captioning Tools by Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Users at Different Reading Literacy Levels
- People with Visual Impairment Training Personal Object Recognizers: Feasibility and Challenges
- Caption Crawler: Enabling Reusable Alternative Text Descriptions using Reverse Image Search
- Older Adults Learning Computer Programming: Motivations, Frustrations, and Design Opportunities
- The Design of Assistive Location-based Technologies for People with Ambulatory Disabilities: A Formative Study
- If It’s Important It Will Be A Headline”: Cybersecurity Information Seeking in Older Adults
- Older People Inventing their Personal Internet of Things with the IoT Un-Kit Experience
- Not For Me: Older Adults Choosing Not to Participate in a Social Isolation Intervention
- Understanding Older Users’ Acceptance of Wearable Interfaces for Sensor-based Fall Risk Assessment
- Understanding Older Adults’ Participation in Design Workshops
