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Accessibility in Pervasive Systems: An Exploratory Study

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Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions (HCII 2020)

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Contemporary computer systems fully integrate people’s daily lives in the most diversified contexts. The adequate construction of those systems demands well-defined patterns for including a whole community of users encompassing people with disabilities. Current interaction scenarios with pervasive computing technologies present design challenges for the applicability of standards and guidelines such as those of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), suited for Web systems. Such scenarios require further studies to deal with the endeavor of supporting designers to project pervasive interactive systems that consider all people, regardless of their condition and ability, allowing different types of interactions to arise. In this article, we conduct an exploratory study to investigate the potential and limitations of current accessibility guidelines for pervasive systems. We explore the last decade of literature studies presenting solutions and challenges for accessibility found for pervasive and ubiquitous computing contexts. The results of this research indicate that it is desirable to define accessibility models for pervasive systems if we consider an accessibility layer that will indicate principles and solutions that should be generic enough to support different categories of impairments and contexts.

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This work was financially supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (grants #2015/16528-0, #2015/24300-9 and #2019/12225-3), and CNPq (grant ##306272/2017-2). We thank the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) for making this research possible.

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    Diego Addan Gonçalves, Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas & Julio Cesar dos Reis

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Gonçalves, D.A., Baranauskas, M.C.C., dos Reis, J.C. (2020). Accessibility in Pervasive Systems: An Exploratory Study. In: Streitz, N., Konomi, S. (eds) Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12203. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50344-4_3

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