TY - GEN
T1 - Using icons to communicate privacy characteristics of adaptive assistive technologies
AU - Poneres, Kellie
AU - Hamidi, Foad
AU - Massey, Aaron
AU - Hurst, Amy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/10/8
Y1 - 2018/10/8
N2 - Adaptive assistive technologies can support the accessibility needs of people with changing abilities by monitoring and adapting to their performance over time. Despite their benefits, these systems can pose privacy threats to users whose data is collected. This issue is amplified by the ambiguity on how user performance data, which might reveal sensitive health data, is used by these applications and whether similar to medical data it is protected from unauthorized sharing with third-parties. In interviews with older adults who experience pointing difficulties, we found that participants felt a lack of agency over their collected pointing data and desired clear communication mechanisms to keep them informed about the privacy characteristics of adaptive assistive systems. Based on this input, we present an icon set, that can be used in online application stores or with the licensing agreements of adaptive systems, to visually communicate privacy characteristics to users.
AB - Adaptive assistive technologies can support the accessibility needs of people with changing abilities by monitoring and adapting to their performance over time. Despite their benefits, these systems can pose privacy threats to users whose data is collected. This issue is amplified by the ambiguity on how user performance data, which might reveal sensitive health data, is used by these applications and whether similar to medical data it is protected from unauthorized sharing with third-parties. In interviews with older adults who experience pointing difficulties, we found that participants felt a lack of agency over their collected pointing data and desired clear communication mechanisms to keep them informed about the privacy characteristics of adaptive assistive systems. Based on this input, we present an icon set, that can be used in online application stores or with the licensing agreements of adaptive systems, to visually communicate privacy characteristics to users.
KW - Adaptive Assistive Systems
KW - Essential Tremors
KW - Icons
KW - Older Adults
KW - Privacy Threats
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U2 - 10.1145/3234695.3241003
DO - 10.1145/3234695.3241003
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056806903
T3 - ASSETS 2018 - Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
SP - 388
EP - 390
BT - ASSETS 2018 - Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2018
Y2 - 22 October 2018 through 24 October 2018
ER -