The advent of system-wide accessibility services on mainstream touch-based smartphones has been a major point inclusion for blind and visually impaired people. Ever since, researchers aimed to improve the specific tasks, such text-entry gestural interaction. However, little work understand overall these devices in real world settings. In this paper, we present an eight-week long study with five novice participants where seek concerns, expectations, challenges, barriers, experiences...

The value of data in supporting citizen participation processes place-making and community building is widely recognised. While the open movement now permits citizens to acquire governmental relating their communities, little no effort made ensure that these datasets are accessible interpretable by non-professionals. Through a series engagements spanning an 18-month period, we co-designed Data:In Place, source web tool which supports accessing, interpreting making sense data. Leveraging...

With 1,033,513 Syrian refugees adding a strain on the Lebanese healthcare system, innovation is key to improving access healthcare. Our previous work identified potential for technology improve antenatal care services and increase refugee agency. Using (1) paper mock ups mobile based prototype, (2) process mapping, (3) focus groups interviews (4) informant meetings, we explored concept of led community radio shows deliver peer-led We observed influence health education, dynamics agency in...

Touchscreens are pervasive in mainstream technologies; they offer novel user interfaces and exciting gestural interactions. However, to interpret distinguish between the vast ranges of inputs, devices require users consistently perform interactions inline with predefined location, movement timing parameters gesture recognizers. For people variable motor abilities, particularly hand tremors, performing these input gestures can be extremely challenging impose limitations on possible make...

The Healthcare system of India provides outreach services to the rural population with a key focus on maternal and child health through its flagship program Community Health Workers (CHWs). since launch has reached scale over 900000 workers across country observed significant benefits indicators. However, traditional face training mechanisms persistent challenge in providing adequate capacity building opportunities CHWs which leads their sub-optimal knowledge skill sets. In this paper, we...

Blind people face significant challenges when using smartphones. The focus on improving nonvisual mobile accessibility has been at the level of touchscreen access. Our research investigates faced by blind in their everyday usage phones. In this article, we present a set studies performed with target population, novices and experts, variety methods, targeted identifying verifying challenges; coping mechanisms. Through multiple methods approach identify validate locally diverse user expertise...

The DCitizens SIG aims to navigate ethical dimensions in forthcoming Digital Civics projects, ensuring enduring benefits and community resilience. Additionally, it seeks shape the future landscape of digital civics for sustainable interventions. As we dive into these interactive processes, a challenge arises discerning authentic intentions validating perspectives. This exploration extends evaluating sustainability interactions scrutinising biases impacting engaged communities. commitment is...

This paper presents insights from a collaboration with cycling advocates and local authorities to consider how HCI can open productive spaces for citizens contribute the realization of social goals. We worked members walking advocacy organization explore potential technology-mediated data collection support action taking. Based on our initial findings, we developed deployed Spokespeople-a system enable people who cycle collect, curate make visible their everyday journeys experiences. then...

WhatsApp, as the world's most popular messaging application, offers significant opportunities for improving reach and effectiveness of engagement projects. In collaboration with International Federation Red Cross Crescent Societies (IFRC) we designed WhatFutures, a collaborative future forecasting global youth using WhatsApp. WhatFutures was successfully deployed 487 players across 5 countries (Kenya, Bulgaria, Finland, Australia Hong Kong) to inform strategic change within IFRC. Based on...

With the Syrian crisis entering its 8th year, refugees have become focus of research across multiple disciplines, including design and HCI research. While some researchers reflected upon designing with refugees, these accounts been limited to conducting workshops in formal spaces. Through reflecting on our experiences informal refugee settlements Lebanon we unpack lessons learnt, practices approaches that facilitate engagements refugees. We highlight value participants configuring space,...

Although designing interactive media experiences for people with dementia has become a growing interest in HCI, strong focus on family members rarely been recognised as worthy of design intervention. This paper presents research through (RTD) approach working closely families living order to create personalised experiences. Three took part day trips, which they co-planned, data collection during these days providing insights into their shared social Workshops were also held personalise the...

Social connectedness in later life is an important dimension of age-friendly community, with associated implications for individual health and wellbeing. In contrast prior efforts focusing on connections at a distance or online communities where the digital technology interface, we explore design opportunities role within geographically local community context. We present findings from interviews 22 older adults linked ideation workshop. Our analysis identified shared concerns negative...

We propose HoliBraille, a system that enables Braille input and output on current mobile devices. use vibrotactile motors combined with dampening materials in order to actuate directly users' fingers. The prototype can be attached capacitive touchscreen devices enabling multipoint localized feedback. HoliBraille leveraged several applications including educational tools for learning Braille, as communication device deaf-blind people, tactile feedback multitouch input. conducted user study 12...

We describe the design and use of ReFind, a handheld artefact made for people who are bereaved ready to re-explore their relationship deceased person. ReFind was within project seeking develop new ways curate create digital media support ongoingness - an active, dynamic component continuing bonds. draw on bereavement theory care championing practices that enable continued sense connection between someone person has died. present development lived experience piece by first author. discuss our...

This workshop proposal advocates for a dynamic, community-led approach to ethics in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) by integrating principles from feminist HCI and digital civics. Traditional often overlook interpersonal considerations, resulting static frameworks ill-equipped address dynamic social contexts power dynamics. Drawing perspectives, the aims lay groundwork developing meta-toolkit ethics, fostering collaborative research practices grounded ethical principles. Through...

This paper explores evidence for the conjecture that improvements in Web accessibility have arisen, part, as side effects of changes technology and associated shifts way pages are designed coded. Drawing on an earlier study trends over past 14 years, it discusses several possible indirect contributors to improving including use new browser capabilities create more sophisticated page layouts, a growing concern with improved rank search results, shift toward cross-device content design....

Non-visual text-entry for people with visual impairments has focused mostly on the comparison of input techniques reporting performance measures, such as accuracy and speed. While researchers have been able to establish that non-visual is slow error prone, there little understanding how improve it. To develop a richer characterization typing performance, we conducted longitudinal study five novice blind users. For eight weeks, collected in-situ usage data weekly laboratory assessment...

Interaction with large touch surfaces is still a relatively infant domain, particularly when looking at the accessibility solutions offered to blind users. Their smaller mobile counterparts are shipped built-in features, enabling non-visual exploration of linearized screen content. However, it unknown how well these perform in interactive that use more complex spatial content layouts. We report on user study 14 participants performing common touchscreen interactions using one and two-hand...

Mobile touch-screen devices are becoming increasingly popular across a diverse range of users. Whilst there is wealth information and utilities available via downloadable apps, still large proportion users with visual motor impairments who unable to use the technology fully due their interaction needs. In this paper we present an evaluation shared user modelling adaptive interfaces improve accessibility mobile technologies. By using abilities based collected through application continually...

Braille has paved its way into mobile touchscreen devices, providing faster text input for blind people. This advantage comes at the cost of accuracy, as chord typing over a flat surface proven to be highly error prone. A misplaced finger on screen translates different or unrecognized character. However, itself gathers information that can leveraged improve performance. We present B#, novel correction system multitouch uses chords atomic unit rather than characters. Experimental results data...

Tablet devices can display full-size QWERTY keyboards similar to the physical ones. Yet, lack of tactile feedback and inability rest fingers on home keys result in a highly demanding slow exploration task for blind users. We present SpatialTouch, an input system that leverages previous experience with keyboards, by supporting two-handed interaction through multitouch spatial, simultaneous audio feedback. conducted user study, 30 novice touchscreen participants entering text under one two...

Across social care, healthcare and public policy, enabled by the "big data" revolution (which has normalized large-scale data-based decision-making), there are moves to "join up" citizen databases provide care workers with holistic views of families they support. In this context, questions personal data privacy, security, access, control (dis-)empowerment critical considerations for system designers policy makers alike. To explore family perspective on landscape what we call Family Civic...

Lebanon currently hosts around one million Syrian refugees. There has been an increasing interest in integrating eHealth and mHealth technologies into the provision of primary health care to refugees Lebanese citizens.We aimed gain a deeper understanding potential for technology integration context protracted refugee crisis Lebanon.A total 17 face-to-face semistructured interviews were conducted with key informants (n=8) providers (n=9) involved population Lebanon. Interviews audio recorded...

Over half of Syrian refugee households in Lebanon are food insecure with some reliant on an electronic voucher (e-voucher) system for aid. The interplay between the digitisation aid, within socio-technical context refugees, and community collaborative practices is yet to be investigated. Through design engagements interviews refugees shop owners we explore experiences a using e-voucher system. We provide insights into environment which dispensing information power asymmetries experienced,...