Computer Interface and Digital Divide

• Focus: How interface design can make computers accessible or inaccessible
• Globally Significant Issue: Digital Divide
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide
    • Mainly focus on Cognitive access, Design access

Research Question idea: To what extent can the physical representation of digital information improve accessibility for the elderly? - or more broadly: What kind of interface could improve usability for the elderly?

Logic

• Introduce how to evaluate

  • TAM / STAM

• Then, evaluate types of interface concepts (Local Manifestations?)

  • Recent examples
    • OOUI
    • Tangible UI
    • Chat UI (using “AI” as a human-like character for normal people)
  • Past examples
    • Emojis
    • Phones
  • These concepts discuss how to let users interact with domain models (CS)#domain

• Since focusing on the elderly,

  • Maybe we should focus more on skepticism than usability, etc.
  • = Focus on emotion in user interface
    • Types of media to access information

• If we focus on emotion,

  • We could study the history of Cybernetics
  • Relates to Technological Determinism and Cybernetics in the Cold War (due Nov.)
  • (Need to be careful about double dipping)

• Focus on physical output?

  • Look into history
  • Watch out for double dipping

• Apollo

  • Spacesuit
  • New technologies

• Make decision soon

• Ask Mr. Taylor

• Film effect, with

Sources

• [[ Tangible Interfaces as a Chance for Higher Technology Acceptance by the Elderly]]
• Wikipedia: Technology Acceptance Model: not really a “source”
• The Senior Technology Acceptance and Adoption model
• Object-oriented UI design - Principles of user-friendly software
• Design for Whom
• エモーショナル・デザイン (haven’t read yet)

https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/september-october-2019/crafting-content-across-the-physical-digital-divide

• CRAFTING CONTENT ACROSS THE PHYSICAL-DIGITAL DIVIDE

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/2005-06/accessibility/firstwave.html

• History of accessible technology

Local examples that could be used: https://jive.benarent.co.uk/

• Jive: The implementation of a Tangible UI helped make this product more accessible to elderly users of the product.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.im.2007.03.005

• How to involve IB History in the Essay

  • Use historical methods/perspectives to analyze the change/continuity of interface?
    • Find technologies that followed the philosophy of tangible UI?
  • Focus more on incidents caused by inaccessibility to technology?
  • 90s cell phone
    • National context until iPhone
  • Globalization of interface

• https://twitter.com/shao1555/status/1302632945048412160

  • This series of tweets could be helpful

• Communication between the elderly

  • aa

• Ageism in History #EE #IB #Interface #HCI #DigitalDivide #Elderly