Alluqmani, A., Harvey, M. orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-2089 and Zhang, Z. (2023) The barriers to online clothing websites for visually impaired people: an interview and observation approach to understanding needs. In: Byrne, D., Martelaro, N., Boucher, A., Chatting, D., Alaoui, S.F., Fox, S., Nicenboim, J. and MacArthur, C., (eds.) DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. DIS '23: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 10-14 Jul 2023, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. ACM , pp. 753-764. ISBN 9781450398930
Abstract
Visually impaired (VI) people often face challenges when performing everyday tasks and identify shopping for clothes as one of the most challenging. Many engage in online shopping, which eliminates some challenges of physical shopping. However, clothes shopping online suffers from many other limitations and barriers. More research is needed to address these challenges, and extant works often base their findings on interviews alone, providing only subjective, recall-biased information. We conducted two complementary studies using both observational and interview approaches to fill a gap in understanding about VI people’s behaviour when selecting and purchasing clothes online. Our findings show that shopping websites suffer from inaccurate, misleading, and contradictory clothing descriptions; that VI people mainly rely on (unreliable) search tools and check product descriptions by reviewing customer comments. Our findings also indicate that VI people are hesitant to accept assistance from automated, but that trust in such systems could be improved if researchers can develop systems that better accommodate users’ needs and preferences.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | clothes shopping online; accessibility; observational study; interview study; disability visually impaired |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 17 May 2023 13:08 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2023 16:22 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | ACM |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/3563657.3595978 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:199270 |