Empath-D : Empathetic Design for Accessibility
Speaker (s): 
Kenny CHOO
PhD Candidate
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University | Date:
Time:
Venue:
| | February 9, 2017, Thursday
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Meeting Room 4.4, Level 4
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
80 Stamford Road
Singapore 178902
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ABOUT THE TALK
We describe our vision for Empath-D, our system to enable Em- pathetic User Interface Design. Our key idea is to leverage Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR / AR) displays to provide an Immersive Reality environment, where developers/designers can emu- late impaired interactions by elderly or disabled users while testing the usability of their applications. Our early experiences with the Empath-D prototype show that Empath-D can emulate a cataract vision impairment of the elderly and guide designers to create accessible web pages with less mental workload.
This a pre-conference talk for The 18th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2017).
About the Speaker
Kenny CHOO is a PhD candidate in the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University under the supervision of Assistant Professor Lee Youngki. He received his B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and M.Sc. in Vision, Imaging, and Virtual Environment from University College London. His research interests lie at the intersection of mobile, social, and empathetic computing, and he is interested in applying mobile social computing to support communication between people.
