Speech in Multimodal Interaction: Exploring Modality Preferences of Hearing Impaired Older Adults

Description

This paper addresses usability challenges of speech and multimodal interfaces by investigating modality preferences and interaction quality of a mobile medication in-take reminder. Older users (normal hearing, hearing impairment) interacted with input and output modality conditions on a smartphone in a laboratory study. Interestingly hearing impaired users prioritized voice only interaction over other modalities, which clearly points up the relevance of speech interaction for people with hearing impairment.

Period	7 May 2016 → 12 May 2016
Event title	CHI 2016 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Event type	Other
Degree of Recognition	International