Paper Info
Title
Do-It-Yourself Empowerment as Experienced by Novice Makers with Disabilities.
Abstract
Recent HCI research has highlighted the potential afforded by maker technologies for supporting new forms of DIY Assistive Technology (DIY-AT) for people with disabilities. Furthermore, the popular discourse surrounding both the maker movement and disability is one of democratisation and empowerment. Despite this, critics argue that maker movement membership lacks diversity and that within DIY-AT, it is seldom the people with disabilities who are creating such designs. We conducted a qualitative study that explored how people with disabilities experience the empowering potential of making. We analysed online videos by makers with disabilities and conducted fieldwork at two makerspaces. These informed the design of DIY-Abilities, a series of workshops for people with disabilities in which participants could learn different maker technologies and complete their own maker project. Through analysis of participants' narratives we contribute a new perspective on the specific social and material capacities of accessible maker initiatives.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3064663.3064674
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Field
DocType
Citations 
Maker movement,Narrative,Human–computer interaction,Democratization,Engineering,Qualitative research,Empowerment
Conference
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.53
28
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Janis Lena Meissner1142.63
John Vines260955.33
Janice McLaughlin3151.61
Thomas Nappey4332.82
Jekaterina Maksimova5100.53
Peter Wright61645203.56