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Voice Assistant Strategies and Opportunities for People with Tetraplegia

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To help both designers and people with tetraplegia fully realize the benefts of voice assistant technology, we conducted interviews with fve people with tetraplegia in the home to understand how this population currently uses voice-based interfaces as well as other technologies in their everyday tasks. We found that people with tetraplegia use voice assistants in specifc places, such as in their beds, or when traveling in their wheelchair. In addition, we note the inefciencies for people with tetraplegia when using voice assistance.

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    ASSETS '19: Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
    October 2019
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    1. assistive technology
    2. design research
    3. tetraplegia
    4. voice agents
    5. voice user interfaces

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