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Title | ||
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Give the Body a Voice: Co-design with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities to Create Multisensory Wearables |
Abstract | ||
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BSTRACT This study explores non-verbal co-design techniques with multisensory wearables to give the body a voice. Sessions were led with professional caregivers, parents, and clients with PIMD (profound intellectual and multiple disabilities) to find fundamental building blocks for a common language based on tangible technologies. To provide an agent for communication we employed the tools of extimacy - translating biodata to visual, auditory, or tactile interactive displays. The caregivers expressed the need for action – reaction “Actie Reactie” to keep attention, which was an update from the Multisensory Environment (MSE) rooms previously used to calm. In the co-design sessions, we found the on-the-body wearables held the most focus. The final discovery from the study became the outline for creating a modular, highly personalized kit for a Multisensory Wearable (MSW) to inspire surprise and wonder. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2021 | 10.1145/3411763.3451797 | Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Keywords | DocType | Citations |
multisensory, wearable, PIMD, non-verbal, co-design, biosensing, extimacy | Conference | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kristin Niedlinger | 1 | 2 | 2.35 |
| Stephanie Koenderink | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Khiet P. Truong | 3 | 302 | 32.64 |