Universal Access Panel: A Novel Approach for Accessible Smart Homes and IoT
- Although various standards and guidelines for accessible design exist, many modern digital devices lack even basic accessibility features. In particular, touchscreens without haptic feedback and a highly complex menu navigation impose serious hurdles for many people – especially for people with disabilities and elderly persons. In this work, we present the Universal Access Panel (UAP) for enabling barrier-free access to home appliances and IoT devices. The system offers a novel, radically simple, multimodal user interface consisting of just a few interaction elements for accessing dedicated functions of the connected home. Using established APIs and communication protocols such as HomeConnect or OpenHab, various domestic appliances, consumer products and smart home devices can be controlled from a single, multimodal interaction console. The system has been designed in cooperation with visually impaired accessibility experts and a user study was conducted with people from the target group. The results show a high overall usability of the prototype.
Author: | Christoph Veigl, Benjamin Klaus, Benjamin Aigner, Manuel Wagner |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08645-8_18 |
Parent Title (English): | Computers Helping People with Special Needs / Proceedings of the 18th International Conference ICCHP-AAATE 2022, July 11-15, 2022, Lecco, Italy |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Completed Date: | 2022/07/15 |
Responsibility for metadata: | Fachhochschule Technikum Wien |
Release Date: | 2023/11/09 |
GND Keyword: | Accessibility; Home Appliances; Internet-of-Things; Multimodal User Interface; Smart Homes |
First Page: | 148 |
Last Page: | 158 |
Publish on Website: | 1 |
Open Access: | 1 |
Reviewed: | 1 |
Invited: | 0 |
Keynote: | 0 |
Department: | Department Electronic Engineering |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften |
Research Focus: | Embedded Systems & Cyber-Physical Systems |
Studienjahr: | 2021/2022 |
Projects: | Stadt Wien - Call 26 bis 30 |