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Applyxmag aids inclusive design with high precision and low cost

Apply-<x>Mag: One Tool to Support Many Inclusive Design Methods

Abstract: Doing inclusive design in HCI practice can be labor-intensive, a costly barrier that some companies and HCI practitioners may be unwilling or unable to overcome. Yet, not doing inclusive design is costly too, in the form of UX barriers that disproportionately disadvantage under-served user populations. To address this problem, we introduce Apply-<x>Mag, an LLM-powered tool to support HCI practitioners' work to design their products inclusively to wide ranges of users. Apply-<x>Mag is general, supporting any inclusive design method that can be expressed as <x>Mags (i.e., using attribute ranges and heuristics). It is also effective: Empirical results with researcher and practitioner teams using various combinations of two <x>Mags on 7 products showed Apply-<x>Mag precision averaging 90-99% and recall averaging 82-89%. Further, its environmental costs were reasonable, costing about the same resources as 2-4 ordinary Google searches.

Wed 16 SeptHuman-Computer Interaction

The gist

Making products that everyone can use can be hard and expensive, which makes some companies skip it and leave some users behind. The authors created Apply-<x>Mag, a tool powered by large language models that helps designers include many types of users by checking their designs against inclusive design guidelines. They tested it on several products and found it was quite accurate and didn’t use many computer resources. This tool helps designers make their products better for diverse users without spending too much time or effort.

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