Empath-D: VR-based empathetic app design for accessibility

• Main Authors: KIM, Wonjung, CHOO, Kenny Tsu Wei, LEE, Youngki, MISRA, Archan, BALAN, Rajesh Krishna
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: empathetic design; accessibility; mobile design; virtual reality; multidevice; distributed user interfaces; Hardware Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4055; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5058/viewcontent/mobisys18_10_kim.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

With app-based interaction increasingly permeating all aspects of daily living, it is essential to ensure that apps are designed to be inclusive and are usable by a wider audience such as the elderly, with various impairments (e.g., visual, audio and motor). We propose Empath-D, a system that foster...