Social robots in the home bring new privacy risks and concerns for older adults. Yet, current technology privacy mechanisms typically use a one-time and universal consent mechanism (e.g., user agreement checkbox, browser cookie setting, etc.), lacking consideration of how privacy is holistically experienced. Designing for privacy requires a multidimensional approach to support how older adults experience privacy. To investigate older adult-centered privacy mechanisms for social robots, we conducted two participatory design (PD) workshops at local assisted living facilities. Our findings from these workshops suggest that older adults do not treat privacy as static, but as a temporal and situational practice that requires continuous negotiations and revisions. We subsequently conducted a post-PD speculative design (SD) process that extracted three design features for privacy—aware social robots-privacy profiles, real-time privacy feedback, and data ownership tools—that can support older adults’ multidimensional privacy experiences.

Intimacy is a complex, multifaceted subject of importance within disability rights movements.Disabled individuals are entitled to the same universal human rights (e.g., marriage, sexual and reproductive self-determination) as everyone else.Assistive measures that support equity in their personal lives remain central to these movements.However, the research community's relatively narrow focus of what "intimacy" is (i.e., primarily concerned with sex) combined with factors, such as context, cultural sensitivities, power dynamics and complex ethics, has resulted in its limited exploration in HCI Accessibility Research.Among the relatively small body of HCI literature, most works approach disabled intimacies through a primarily deficit-oriented and heteronormative lens.Notably, ASSETS has featured only two papers on this subject in the past 23 years [53].Moreover, few studies in HCI explore the methodological and ethical considerations of researching disabled intimacies, and even fewer are disability-led and include queer perspectives [53].In this half-day virtual workshop, we invite engineers, technology design and development researchers, industry practitioners, accessibility * These authors contributed equally to this research and share first authorship of this publication.

Photosensitivity among social media and internet users is an underappreciated risk factor for real physiological harm which can be actively or passively caused by designer and developer choices. Flashing graphics caused by GIFs, video, or even interface animations can trigger nausea, dizziness, migraines, and even seizures. Although there are some guidelines for protections for photosensitive users in W3C's WCAG, these guidelines are often not met by developers, and are insufficient for robust user protection. In this multi-pronged exploratory research project, we work with photosensitive users, design students, and graphics experts to imagine a complete ecosystem of protections which layer vulnerable users at the community, platform, system, and hardware levels. In this paper, we argue for the urgency of reforms in device and internet infrastructure, development practices, design norms, and community behaviors. We then propose an ecosystem of protections which more holistically shield photosensitive users from ambient, accidental, and malicious exposure to flashing graphics.

Autism has become a popular context for accessible technology researchers, yet a majority of HCI projects for autism and ADHD do not engage in participatory methods or otherwise involve disabled stakeholders in the project and research design. Prior inquiry has identified executive function as a common difficulty for which technologies may provide novel benefits. In this study, we explore how autistic adults currently use technologies, broadly defined, to augment executive function and support themselves in day-to-day tasks. We collect qualitative data from narratives elicited during informal asynchronous interviews to conduct a digital ethnomethodology. Following from principles of Design Justice, crip technoscience, and cyborg assemblage theory, we investigate how autistic adults articulate their own sociotechnical environments into technologically mediated assemblages of executive function and interpersonal webs of care. These patterns of sociotechnical formation inform future work in research and design for tools that can mediate executive function for all users.