Conversations On Multimodal Input Design With Older Adults
This addresses input design challenges for older adults, but it is incremental as it builds on existing multimodal approaches.
The study tackled designing multimodal input systems for older adults by conducting surveys and interviews, finding that gesture and speech should be the primary inputs and that collaborative design facilitates useful conversations.
Multimodal input systems can help bridge the wide range of physical abilities found in older generations. After conducting a survey/interview session with a group of older adults at an assisted living community we believe that gesture and speech should be the main inputs for that system. Additionally, collaborative design of new systems was found to be useful for facilitating conversations around input design with this demographic.