Designing with and for people with intellectual disabilities
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Authors
Soares Guedes L.,
Gibson R. C.,
Ellis K.,
Sitbon L.,
Landoni M.
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2022
Language
English
Abstract
People with intellectual disabilities often experience inequalities that affect the standard of their everyday lives. Assistive technologies can help alleviate some of these inequalities, yet abandonment rates remain high. This is in part due to a lack of involvement of all stakeholders in their design and evaluation, thus resulting in outputs that do not meet this cohort’s complex and heterogeneous needs. The aim of this half-day workshop is to focus on community building in a field that is relatively thin and disjointed, thereby enabling researchers to share experiences on how to design for and with people with intellectual disabilities, provide internal support, and establish new collaborations. Workshop outcomes will help to fill a gap in the available guidelines on how to include people with intellectual disabilities in research, through more accessible protocols as well as personalised and better fit-for-purpose technologies.
Keywords
Design, People with intellectual disabilities, Communication, Methods, Assessment
Conference proceedings
ASSETS '22: Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Pages (or article number)
1-6
Diffusion
License
Rights reserved
Visibility
Public
Status open access
Green
