Robin N. Brewer

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Spirits in the Material World: Older Adults’ Personal Curation of Memory Artifacts

Memory artifacts are personal and collective belongings that elicit deliberate or involuntary memories. They are significant as objects of continuity, vessels for identity, and links to past relationships and history—for individuals, families, and communities. Drawing from in-depth interviews and cultural probe sessio…

CUI '23CorrespondingIntelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +1

Voice Assistant Use in Long-Term Care

Research on voice assistants has primarily studied how people use them for informational needs, music requests, and to control electronic devices (e.g., IoT). Recent research suggests people such as older adults want to use them to address social and relational needs, but lacks empirical evidence to show how older adu…

CSCW '222nd AuthorVisual Impairments; Visual Impairments

Understanding Emerging Obfuscation Technologies in Visual Description Services for Blind and Low Vision People

Blind and low vision people use visual description services (VDS) to gain visual interpretation and build access in a world that privileges sight. Despite its many benefits, VDS has many harmful privacy and security implications. As a result, researchers are suggesting, exploring, and building obfuscation systems that…

CSCW '211st AuthorHonorable MentionAging with Technology

Challenging Passive Social Media Use: Older Adults as Caregivers Online

Older adults are often portrayed as passive social media users who consume content rather than actively posting content. However, this binary divide between active and passive social media use overlooks nuanced kinds of engagement online. Via an eye-tracking study of older adults' Facebook use, this work shows how not…

CSCW '212nd AuthorSupport and Inclusion

How Content Authored by People with Dementia Affects Attitudes towards Dementia

Negative attitudes shape experiences with stigmatized conditions such as dementia, from affecting social relationships to influencing willingness to adopt technology. Consequently, attitudinal change has been identified as one lever to improve life for people with stigmatized conditions. Though recognized as a scaleab…

DIS '21CorrespondingAging-Friendly Technology Design +2

Hugs, Bible Study, and Speakeasies: Designing for Older Adults’ Multimodal Connectedness

Older adults can experience significant changes to their social networks as they age, triggering changes in their social connection practices. In this paper, we extend research on older adults' connectedness behaviors using a multimodal connectedness framing---that is, how they engage with others across platforms, dev…

CSCW '191st AuthorMobility and ridesharing

Stories from the Front Seat: Supporting Accessible Transportation in the Sharing Economy

Ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft play an important role in broadening access to affordable, efficient transportation for people with vision impairments by providing an alternative to public transit, friends, or family. While previous work has focused on the challenges that people with disabilities experience us…

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