Kirsten Cater

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Beyond Accuracy: Auditing Allocative Harms in Facial-Gesture Recognition for People with Motor Impairments

Camera-based facial-gesture interfaces offer hands-free access for people with motor impairments (PwM), yet most recognition models are trained on able-bodied data and implicitly assume normative motor control and proprioception. We conducted a mixed-methods empirical study of 37 above-neck gestures performed by 11 Pw…

CHI '235th+ AuthorAging-in-Place Assistance Systems

The Shifting Sands of Labour: Changes in Shared Care Work with a Smart Home Health System

Whilst the use of smart home systems has shown promise in recent years supporting older people's activities at home, there is more evidence needed to understand how these systems impact the type and the amount of shared care in the home. It is important to understand care recipients and caregivers' labour is changed w…

CHI '235th+ AuthorSocial & Collaborative VR +2

Imagine That! Imaginative Suggestibility Affects Presence in Virtual Reality

Personality characteristics can affect how much presence an individual experiences in virtual reality, and researchers have explored how it may be possible to prime users to increase their sense of presence. A personality characteristic that has yet to be explored in the VR literature is imaginative suggestibility, th…

CSCW '214th AuthorAging with Technology

Aging in Place Together: The Journey Towards Adoption and Acceptance of Stairlifts in Multi-Resident Homes

Stairlifts are a widely-used technology in the home that help people with mobility issues to go up and down stairs. However, it is unclear how stairlifts are experienced by all household members and what this understanding implies for home healthcare technologies. We investigated the impact of stairlift installations…

CHI '203rd AuthorParticipatory Design +1

Towards A Design For Life: Redesigning For Reminiscence With Looked After Children

For 'looked-after' and adopted children, physical objects are often the only remaining link to their pasts; a portal to stories of former families, homes, and events. The act of reminiscence, known as 'life story work', can help children to process their pasts and overcome trauma. This paper describes the user-centred…

CHI '195th+ AuthorHonorable MentionImmersion & Presence Research +2

Behind the Curtain of the "Ultimate Empathy Machine": On the Composition of Virtual Reality Nonfiction Experiences

Virtual Reality nonfiction (VRNF) is an emerging form of immersive media experience created for consumption using panoramic "Virtual Reality" headsets. VRNF promises nonfiction content producers the potential to create new ways for audiences to experience "the real"; allowing viewers to transition from passive spectat…

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