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Title | ||
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Design in the Public Square: Supporting Assistive Technology Design Through Public Mixed-Ability Cooperation |
Abstract | ||
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From the white cane to the smartphone, technology has been an effective tool for broadening blind and low vision participation in a sighted world. In the face of this increased participation, individuals with visual impairments remain on the periphery of most sight-first activities. In this paper, we describe a multi-month public-facing co-design engagement with an organization that supports blind and low vision outrigger paddling. Using a mixed-ability design team, we developed an inexpensive cooperative outrigger paddling system, called CoOP, that shares control between sighted and visually impaired paddlers. The results suggest that public design, a DIY (do-it-yourself) stance, and attentiveness to shared physical experiences, represent key strategies for creating assistive technologies that support shared experiences.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1145/3359257 | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
assistive technology, co-design, design, disability, participatory design, visual impairment | Engineering management,Computer science,Design technology | Journal |
Volume | Issue | Citations |
3 | CSCW | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 21 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark S. Baldwin | 1 | 7 | 1.79 |
| Sen H. Hirano | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Jennifer Mankoff | 3 | 2727 | 230.05 |
| Gillian Hayes | 4 | 1852 | 155.64 |