Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D.
Presidential Endowed Professor & Chair 
Human-Centered Computing Division
School of Computing

Professor Automotive Engineering
Clemson University
juan@clemson.edu
Twitter: @DrJuanGilbert
http://www.JuanGilbert.com/
http://www.HumanCenteredComputing.org/

•	Accessible Voting Technology Grant

•	$4.5 million over 3 years

•	Demonstration projects/elections

•	Innovations in voting technologies with our partners …

RAAV Projects 
Accessible Voting Technologies

Voter - Multimodal
•	Multimodal Interactions
–	Voters can speak and touch interchangeably
Voter - Visual
•	Touch screen tablets
–	Large fonts
–	Images or No Images
–	Touchable Names
•	Voter touches the screen to make selection
–	Confirmation is visual
•	Ballot layout
–	One race per screen
–	Voter confirms ballot twice before it is recorded
Voter - Haptic
•	Rocker Switch
–	Large texture on buttons
–	Select and Next

•	Voter presses the button to make a selection
–	Confirmation is verbal and visual

Voter - Verbal
•	Headset
–	The system speaks to the voter through the headset
–	Conversation is confidential – no one can hear the machine’s speech, but the voter
–	System’s speech can be pre-recorded or computer generated or both.
•	Embedded microphone in the headset
–	Voter speaks words like “vote”, “continue”, etc. or blows into the microphone
–	Confirmation is verbal
The World’s Most Accessible Voting Technology
•	Sighted
•	Blind
•	Deaf
•	Illiteracy
–	Sighted and Blind
•	Physical Disabilities
–	Limited or no use of hands
–	For example, military wounded in Iraq, elderly, etc.
•	All of these voters can privately and independently vote!
Prime III
Security
Security - VVGB
•	Voter-Verified Ballot (VVB)
–	Printed ballots will contain only the selections for each race
–	May be printed on paper with a watermark
–	Green approach to voting
•	All paper is used and recycled

Pilots
•	NSBE Election (2008 - 2014)

•	National Council on Independent Living (NCIL)

•	Presidential Mock Election at Auburn University

•	State of Oregon (May 2012)
Pilots
•	Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE 2012)
–	Ballot contained photos of the candidates

•	Clemson Elementary School (2012)

Pilot Election
Pilot Challenges
•	Election Officials
–	In many cases, unwilling to participate
–	It takes a lot of work to convince some of them

•	Vendors
–	It took a lot of time to communicate that we are not vendors

•	Participants
–	Getting a diverse group to participate
Questions???
http://www.AccessibleVoting.org
Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D.
Presidential Endowed Professor & Chair Human-Centered Computing Division
School of Computing

Professor Automotive Engineering
Clemson University
juan@clemson.edu
Twitter: @DrJuanGilbert
http://www.JuanGilbert.com/
http://www.HumanCenteredComputing.org/
http://www.clemson.edu/computing