Project factsheet

The demand for simple and accessible use of electronic services has often been ignored due to security and privacy concerns. There is a growing need for easy-to-use, accessible and universally designed authentication mechanisms. This is also the case for the new social media. Use of these systems often requires that the user authenticates herself through a sometimes tedious and complex process of registration. Many security features are difficult to use for most people. For people with disabilities they may be impossible to use. There are codes that must be remembered and (visual) instructions from the system that must be carefully followed. This poses a problem for many elderly or disabled people. The e-Me project addresses these challenges and will suggest and test out alternative approaches and solutions in close collaboration with university, companies, and user organizations.

NR will be involved in conceptual development, user research, user requirement elicitation, software prototype development, accessibility and usability testing, and evaluation.

E-me will provide concepts, solutions and methods that will improve accessibility and usability of social media solutions without compromising security, privacy, and identity control.

Our aim is to contribute to the development of solutions that make ICT products and services usable and accessible to all members of the society.

• Kristin Skeide Fuglerud and Till Halbach Røssvoll. Previous and related research on usability and accessibility issues of personal identification management systems. Technical note DART/10/10, October 2010. [http://publ.nr.no/5371]