CoFaçade: A Customizable Assistive Approach for Elders and Their Helpers

• Main Authors: ZHAO, Jason Chen, DAVIS, Richard Christopher, FOONG, Pin Sym, ZHAO, Shengdong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Silver Computing; Accessibility design; CoFaçade; Collaboration; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2966; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3966/viewcontent/CHI2015_coFacade_v2.0_camera_final.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We present CoFaçade, a novel approach to helping elders reach their goals with IT products by working collaboratively with helpers. In this approach, the elder uses an interface with a small number of triggers, where each trigger is a single button (or card) that can execute a procedure. The helper...