19 Result(s)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Effects of Age-Related Cognitive Decline on Elderly User Interactions with Voice-Based Dialogue Systems

Cognitive functioning that affects user behaviors is an important factor to consider when designing interactive systems for the elderly, including emerging voice-based dialogue systems such as smart speakers a...

Masatomo Kobayashi, Akihiro Kosugi… in Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019 (2019)

Article

New challenges in web accessibility

Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa in Universal Access in the Information Society (2017)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Easy Handheld Training: Interactive Self-learning App for Elderly Smartphone Novices

Smartphones have great potential for elderly people to enrich their lives. Elderly people, however, hesitate to use smartphones compared to younger people due to several factors such as anxieties about the dif...

Yosuke Toyota, Daisuke Sato, Tsuneo Kato… in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interac… (2014)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Involving Senior Workers in Crowdsourced Proofreading

Seniors have a wealth of knowledge and free time, so they are a promising workforce for crowdsourced tasks. Currently senior workers are hardly involved in real applications. We have started an experimental pr...

Toshinari Itoko, Shoma Arita… in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interac… (2014)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Skill Development Framework for Micro-Tasking

We propose a framework of micro-tasking that intrinsically supports the development of workers’ skills. It aims to help developers of micro-tasking systems add skill development capabilities to their systems w...

Shin Saito, Toshihiro Watanabe… in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interac… (2014)

Chapter and Conference Paper

How Unfamiliar Words in Smartphone Manuals Affect Senior Citizens

Elderly people are motivated to continue working, but may have difficulties working in full-time jobs and need flexible working styles to compensate for their declining physical abilities. ICT can help support...

Tatsuya Ishihara, Masatomo Kobayashi… in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interac… (2013)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Age-Based Task Specialization for Crowdsourced Proofreading

Crowdsourcing can efficiently produce accessible digital books for people with print disabilities. However, particularly in Japan, the proofreading step tends to be expensive because of language-related issues...

Masatomo Kobayashi, Tatsuya Ishihara… in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interac… (2013)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Question-Answer Cards for an Inclusive Micro-tasking Framework for the Elderly

Micro-tasking (e.g., crowdsourcing) has the potential to help “long-tail” senior workers utilize their knowledge and experience to contribute to their communities. However, their limited ICT skills and their c...

Masatomo Kobayashi, Tatsuya Ishihara… in Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013 (2013)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Characteristics of Elderly User Behavior on Mobile Multi-touch Devices

Smartphones and tablet devices have been rapidly proliferating, and multi-touch interaction, powerful processors and rich array of sensors make these devices an attractive service platform for older users. Whi...

Susumu Harada, Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi… in Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013 (2013)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Lessons Learned from Crowd Accessibility Services

Crowd accessibility services for people with disabilities, driven by crowd-sourcing methods, are gaining traction as a viable means of realizing innovative services by leveraging both human and machine intelli...

Hironobu Takagi, Susumu Harada, Daisuke Sato… in Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013 (2013)

Chapter and Conference Paper

What’s Next? A Visual Editor for Correcting Reading Order

The reading order, i.e. the serialized form, of the webpage should be a meaningful order for alternative representations such as the audible forms needed for visually impaired users. However, the serialized fo...

Daisuke Sato, Masatomo Kobayashi… in Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009 (2009)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Making Multimedia Internet Content Accessible and Usable

Although multimedia content containing streaming media is now widely used on the World Wide Web, there exist considerable difficulties for blind users to access such content, due to its dynamic changes, keyboa...

Hisashi Miyashita, Hironobu Takagi… in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interac… (2007)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Accessibility Evaluation for Multimedia Content

Practices supporting Web accessibility are spread out all over the world. However, the accessibility of multimedia content and rich Internet applications has been little discussed. These types of content are u...

Chieko Asakawa, Takashi Itoh… in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interac… (2007)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Technology Advances and Standardization Toward Accessible Business Graphics

Various types of graphics are exchanged in our daily business and education processes. In spite of the importance of business graphics, they are not accessible for visually impaired people, especially for the ...

Hironobu Takagi, Tatsuya Ishihara in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interac… (2007)