CMC for Special User

For people who are blind, deaf, limited mobility and so on.

CMC for Deaf individuals

• Supporting sign language (ASL) and English
• When they look at the screen, they couldn't look at doctor
• English is a second language for ASL speakers

Mobile ASL: A tool to support communication among ADL speakers. It can be used to exchange typed Enlgish text messages with non-ASL speaker

Peripheral Awareness: Useful sounds in the workplace as reported by hearing participants?

• Typing
• Co-worker talking

Awareness at home:

• Cars
• Music
• Phone
• TV
• Shower
• Chidren
• Doorbell, doorknock
• Alarm

Awareness for deaf people: we can translate sound to light, vibration, or signal on computer screen

Doctor-Patient Conversation (Piper & Hollan, CSCW 2008)

• Doctor can share X-ray pictures and other information on the table and they can type in notes on the screen. But the problem is patients cannot look at doctor and table at the same time.

CMC for Elders

Special design factors we need to keep in mind:

• Computer skills, typing skills
• Mobility
• Thinkability

ElderMail (Davidoff et al. CHI 2005)

Book as User Interface (BUI): use a familar form as tangible interface to computing