Harmonizing the Senses: Designing a Cross-Modal Interactive Art System to Enhance Older Adults' Affective Experiences
SiHan An, Yifan Wu, Zihan Zhang, Yuanlinxi Li, Mengqi Jiang, Jiaxin Zhang, Qingchuan Li · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
This CHI 2026 paper investigates how cross-modal correspondence and congruency across visual, auditory, and kinetic modalities shape older adults' affective experiences in digital art systems, and how an AI-infused drawing mode can scaffold those experiences. The authors frame…
older adults · multisensory stimulation · affective computing · cross-modal correspondence · generative AI