A question of access: Exploring the perceived benefits and barriers of intelligent voice assistants for improving access to consumer health resources among low …

P Nallam, S Bhandari, J Sanders… - Gerontology and …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Intelligent voice assistants (IVAs) such as Amazon Echo and Google Home present a
promising opportunity to improve access to consumer health information and resources for …

Combating replay attacks against voice assistants

S Pradhan, W Sun, G Baig, L Qiu - … of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recently, there has been a surge in the popularity of voice-first devices, such as Amazon
Echo, Google Home, etc. While these devices make our life more convenient, they are …

" This machine is for the aides": tailoring voice assistant design to home health care work

V Bartle, L Albright, N Dell - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This paper explores how the design of interactive voice assistants (IVAs) might be tailored to
support home health aides' important work in complex home care contexts. We designed …

Disability-first dataset creation: lessons from constructing a dataset for teachable object recognition with blind and low vision data collectors

L Theodorou, D Massiceti, L Zintgraf, S Stumpf… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for accessibility is a rapidly growing area, requiring datasets that
are inclusive of the disabled users that assistive technology aims to serve. We offer insights …

Benefits of community voice: A framework for understanding inclusion of community voice in HCI4D

M Saha, S Lindsay, D Varghese, T Bartindale… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Community voice is widely used in computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and
human-computer interaction (HCI) work with underserved communities. However, the term is …

Can't touch this: Rethinking public technology in a covid-19 era

J Pearson, G Bailey, S Robinson, M Jones… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
What do pedestrian crossings, ATMs, elevators and ticket machines have in common?
These are just a few of the ubiquitous yet essential elements of public-space infrastructure …

Situating Automatic Speech Recognition Development within Communities of Under-heard Language Speakers

T Reitmaier, E Wallington, O Klejch, N Markl… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we develop approaches to automatic speech recognition (ASR) development
that suit the needs and functions of under-heard language speakers. Our novel contribution …

KinVoices: Using voices of friends and family in voice interfaces

SWT Chan, TS Gunasekaran, YS Pai, H Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
With voice user interfaces (VUIs) becoming ubiquitous and speech synthesis technology
maturing, it is possible to synthesise voices to resemble our friends and relatives (which we …

" Learn, Use, and (Intermittently) Abandon": Exploring the Practices of Early Smart Speaker Adopters in Urban India

R Garg, H Cui, Y Kapadia - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Since smart speakers were introduced to the Indian markets at the end of 2017, they have
been adopted by hundreds of thousands households in India. While the scholarship has …

Rethinking design of digital platforms for emergent users: Findings from a study with rural Indian farmers

M Dhaygude, D Chakraborty - … of the 11th Indian Conference on Human …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
With increasing penetration of low cost smartphones and affordable data plans in
developing countries like India, there is a definite potential that the benefits of access to …