The use of working prototypes for participatory design with people with disabilities

Brandon Haworth; Muhammad Usman; Melanie Baljko; Foad Hamidi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_19

The use of working prototypes for participatory design with people with disabilities

Brandon Haworth, Muhammad Usman, Melanie Baljko^*, Foad Hamidi

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Abstract

The inclusion of people with disabilities and their circle of stakeholders in the design and deployment of digital assistive technology is increasingly being recognized as important. The Do-It-Yourself Assistive Technology (DIY-AT) approach investigates methodologies and tools to support accessible making practices. In prior work, we successfully used a DIY-AT approach to develop TalkBox, an open-source directselection communication board for those with little or no functional verbal communication. In this paper, we describe a follow-up project in which we use TalkBox as a prototyping platform to facilitate co-design and co-fabrication of DIY-AT. We present results from (1) a workshop in which users with disabilities and their parents/caregivers fabricated their own TalkBoxes, and (2) a collaborative co-design session with a nonverbal child and his mother wherein the potential for TalkBox variants led to novel design decisions. We illustrate the outcome of our process by describing the multi-vocabulary variant called Hot Swappable Talk- Box, in which RFID technology is used to afford easy switching among different vocabulary sets.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 15th International Conference, ICCHP 2016, Proceedings
Editors	Christian Bühler, Klaus Miesenberger, Petr Penaz
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	134-141
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9783319412634
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_19
State	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	15th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2016 - Linz, Austria Duration: 13 Jul 2016 → 15 Jul 2016

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9758
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	15th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2016
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Linz
Period	13/07/16 → 15/07/16

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
In this paper, we situated our present work in our previously-reported project [], in which we successfully used a DIY-AT approach to develop TalkBox, an open-source communication board for non-verbal individuals. In this follow-up work, we sought to investigate one means to include, to a greater degree, people with disabilities, as well as their teachers, parents, caregivers, and other community members, in the design and deployment of digital assistive technology. This investigation entailed the design and instantiation of the TalkMake workshop. We, along with others, recognize that efforts such as the TalkMake workshop as serving to recognize technology as a process (as opposed to an end-product), and, subsequently, to position key stakeholders within this process. The approach has been made possible, in part, by the rise in maker communities and the upswell of DIY approaches.

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.

Keywords

Assistive technology
Communication boards
Do-It-Yourself (DIY)
Open-source hardware
Participatory Design
SGDs

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science (all)

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Haworth, B., Usman, M., Baljko, M., & Hamidi, F. (2016). The use of working prototypes for participatory design with people with disabilities. In C. Bühler, K. Miesenberger, & P. Penaz (Eds.), Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 15th International Conference, ICCHP 2016, Proceedings (pp. 134-141). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9758). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_19

Haworth, Brandon ; Usman, Muhammad ; Baljko, Melanie et al. / The use of working prototypes for participatory design with people with disabilities. Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 15th International Conference, ICCHP 2016, Proceedings. editor / Christian Bühler ; Klaus Miesenberger ; Petr Penaz. Springer Verlag, 2016. pp. 134-141 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Haworth, B, Usman, M, Baljko, M & Hamidi, F 2016, The use of working prototypes for participatory design with people with disabilities. in C Bühler, K Miesenberger & P Penaz (eds), Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 15th International Conference, ICCHP 2016, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9758, Springer Verlag, pp. 134-141, 15th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2016, Linz, Austria, 13/07/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_19

The use of working prototypes for participatory design with people with disabilities. / Haworth, Brandon; Usman, Muhammad; Baljko, Melanie et al.
Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 15th International Conference, ICCHP 2016, Proceedings. ed. / Christian Bühler; Klaus Miesenberger; Petr Penaz. Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 134-141 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9758).

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