Table 3:
The seven design principles from Ability-based design [87, 88] (and additional Privacy and Trust considerations) and how they have been mapped to older adults’ needs from our analysis.
Principle | Definition | Design Strategies to Support Older Adults Access Voice-based IVAs | Barriers | |
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Stance | Ability | Designers will focus on ability not dis-ability, striving to leverage all that users can do to augment what users need to do. | Older adults could ubiquitously interact with PPs through IVA, especially the tasks need be completed periodically and do not require much time and efforts, e.g., EMA; | B-A1, B-A2, B-C1, B-C3, B-D3 |
The system should also allow providers to easily change IVA configurations based on patients’ need (e.g., enable/disable the IVA connected to a specific features on PPs). | ||||
Visual output could be beneficial for better social interaction experience and ease-of-use; | B-B1, B-C3 | |||
Multimodal output could be beneficial for those with sensory impairment; | B-D2 | |||
Accountability | Designers will respond to poor performance by changing systems, not users, leaving users as they are. | IVA needs to correctly understand older adults’ intent and offer mechanism to repair interaction upon failures; | ||
Interface | Adaptation | Interfaces may be self-adaptive or user-adaptable to provide best possible match to users’ desire and ability. | Personalized chat should be based on older adults’ hobbies and interests; | B-B1 |
It might be beneficial to design personalized proactive health advice on-demand; | B-A1, B-A2, B-B2, B-B3 | |||
Transparency | Interfaces may give users awareness of adaptations and the means to inspect, override, discard, revert, store, retrieve, preview, and test those adaptations. | Older adults should have clear and explicit guidance during device setting up and troubleshooting phases; | B-D1 | |
System | Performance | Systems may regard users’ performance, and may monitor, measure, model, or predict that performance. | IVA need to sense and understand the context of the older adults’ life; | B-A1, B-B2, B-B3 |
Context | Systems may also proactively sense context and anticipant its effect on users’ ability. | Older adults can control their home environment through IVA; | B –B3 | |
Commodity | System may comprise low cost, inexpensive, readily available commodity hardware and software. | The integration of IVA into existing technologies should not incur significate increasing on the cost; | B-A1, B-A2 | |
Privacy and Trust | Systems may comprise low-cost, readily available commodity hardware and software. System may also need to be secure enough where users can establish trust with it. | Countermeasures might be required to ensure confidentiality of unintended speech and contextual data, as well as establish trust between older adults and device; | B-D4 |