While voice user interfaces offer increased accessibility due to hands-free and eyes-free
interactions, older adults often have challenges such as constructing structured requests …

Voice-based Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) promise to improve healthcare management
and Quality of Life (QOL) by introducing the paradigm of hands-free and eye-free …

Voice assistants embodied in smart speakers (eg, Amazon Echo, Google Home) enable
voice-based interaction that does not necessarily rely on expertise with mobile or desktop …

Successful human-technology interactions require that people be able to communicate their
intentions to the technology. Emergent technologies such as virtual assistants, digital home …

Voice interfaces such as in-home and mobile digital assistants, mobile screen readers, and
chatbots are tools that can support communication, collaboration, and information seeking …

Older adults often struggle to locate a function quickly in feature-rich user interfaces (UIs).
Mobile UIs not only pack a ton of features in a small screen but also get frequent updates to …

Technology to support aging in place has been a topic of interest. Research indicates that
older adults are increasingly using commercially available voice assistants in smart …

While past research has examined older adults' voice assistant (VA) use, it is unclear
whether VAs provide enough value to sustain use when compared to technologies such as …

Over a decade ago, the introduction of touchscreens greatly enhanced older adults' access
to information online. Today, voice-user interfaces (VUIs) promise a similar revolution …

While voice user interfaces (VUIs) are becoming promising tools for users to control home
appliances, the VUIs pose great challenges to the older adults. In this paper, I explored how …