Sunday, June 1, 2025
6/1/2025
Participatory Assistive, Inclusive and Responsible Technology (PAIR-Tech) - Abstract. The widespread adoption of consumer-facing Generative AI (GAI) can advance the creation of equitable ICT-based personalized accessibility solutions that can adapt to meet the evolving needs of disabled people and improve outcomes in community living & participation and employment. Goal: Our RERC will cultivate novel approaches to ICT Accessibility by using GAI to increase agency and control for people with disabilities while also addressing risks such as bias, security and privacy. Objectives: We will study the efficacy of using GAI as an accessibility tool while measuring and addressing risks such as bias, security, and privacy. We will leverage GAI to create new approaches to ICT access in domains where there are unmet needs, such as creative tasks and document/information access. Outcomes of our work will include the first survey to comprehensively track GAI use by people with disabilities, its positive impact, risks; guidelines for mitigating GAI bias in hiring; a dataset of end-user-generated metrics for assessing simplified text; documentation for holding accessible maker space events; and tutorials and training opportunities for people with disabilities to learn about and use open-source accessibility technologies. Products will include novel tools for on-demand text simplification, for accessible slideshow creation; customizing home adaptations; and an online archive of open-source accessibility and rehabilitation technologies supporting access.
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