Assistive or Artistic Technologies? Exploring the Connections between Art, Disability and Wheelchair Use

Barbareschi, Giulia; Inakage, Masa

doi:10.1145/3517428.3544799

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“…Since the publication of Mankoff et al's "Disability Studies as a Source of Critical Inquiry for the Field of Assistive Technology" in 2010, there is a subfield of HCI research that explores disability through interdisciplinary critical approaches (Barbareschi and Inakage, 2022;Hofmann et al, 2020;Spiel and Angelini, 2022;Williams and Boyd, 2019;Williams and Gilbert, 2019;Ymous et al, 2020). Furthermore, it is indicative of what Meissner et al (2017Meissner et al ( , p. 1055) describe as a "conceptual shift" in assistive technology research.…”

Section: Developments In Critical Hci Research With Disabled Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

Critical pedagogy and disability in participatory research: a review

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2024

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Purpose The literature review explores how multidisciplinary approaches based on critical pedagogy and participatory research can provide frameworks for equitable partnerships and genuine participation in educational design and research practices. Additionally, the essay aims to expand understandings of equitable engagement within educational research and design based on principles from critical pedagogy. Design/methodology/approach The essay draws from diverse literature in the learning sciences, health informatics, industrial design, disability studies, ethnic studies, rehabilitation science, and to a lesser extent HCI research to understand how critical pedagogy and participatory research methods can provide useful frameworks for disabled peoples' equitable engagement and genuine participation in educational research and design. The literature reviewed in the paper concern topics such as participatory approaches to community development with disabled adults, the implementation of university-initiated community partnerships, participatory research with students and disabled people, and the importance of culturally-responsive research practices. The design literature in this review explores various arenas such as the co-design of assistive technologies with disabled children and adults and the design of curricula for students with and without disabilities. This review focuses on research practices that engender disabled peoples' participation in educational research and design, with focus on developing multidisciplinary frameworks for such research. Findings The literature review concludes that participatory research methods and critical pedagogy provide useful frameworks for disabled peoples’ participation in educational design and research practices. Critical pedagogy and participatory design allow for the genuine participation of disabled people in the research process. Social implications Emphases on collaboration and collective knowledge-building in social transformation are present in scholarship concerning critical pedagogy, participatory research, and disability studies. However, these connections have been routinely underexplored in the literature. This paper aims to underscore these integral connections as a means to build solidarity between disabled and other marginalized people. Originality/value The connections between participatory research methods, critical pedagogy, and disability studies have been previously underexplored. The literature review proposes a combined approach, which has the potential to radically transform multiple realms of research beyond the learning and information sciences.

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Section: Developments In Critical Hci Research With Disabled Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

Critical pedagogy and disability in participatory research: a review

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2024

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“…Like all forms of technologies that disabled people integrate into their daily lives, telepresence devices and robotic avatars, require certain skills to be used eectively [26,47,101]. As the embodied connection between the disabled user and the avatar robot increase, users develop new competencies and personal strategies that allow them to expand the interaction capabilities of their own avatars [2,7,65]. Rode [70] poignantly describes how, through years of use, she was able to perfect a "whole-body robot knock", as her telepresence avatar robot did not have hands that could be used for that purpose.…”

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“…A signicant number of studies in HCI has explored the complexity of embodied experiences of disability and their technological implications [36,37,76,78]. Research in HCI and beyond has also shown that embodied experiences of disability don't end at the skin, rather they organically incorporate assistive technologies including wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs, and mobile phones [2,6,12,74,77]. The study by Ringland 2019 [68] also documented how embodied experiences that involve digital avatars of autistic children who engage in the Autcraft virtual world can be considered as real, and in some cases more real, than the ones that take place in the physical world.…”

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“…Barbareschi & Inakage [2] explored how the connection between artists and their wheelchairs persisted even without direct interaction. In contrast, as pilots in our study moved between the multiple avatar robots, their embodied connection only existed with the avatar they were controlling.…”

Section: A Dierent Form Of Embodimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Critical Disability scholars and activists have explained how disabled people have a longer history of integrating technology into their lives and their bodies, compared to most non-disabled individuals [43,64,97]. In fact, many assistive technologies are seen as an extension of the body that become integral parts of the embodied experience of the individual [2,66,73,75,76]. Disabled people's embodied cyborg experiences are often associated with the use of assistive devices, which are directly connected or in proximity of one's body such as wheelchairs, prosthetic devices, and cochlear implants [4,6,19,45,62].…”

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Accessible Parallel Embodiment of Multiple Robotic Avatars in a Cafe

Barbareschi¹,

Kawaguchi

Kato

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Novel technological systems enabling people to control multiple robotic avatars simultaneously could support more accessible ways to multitask. An implementation of a parallel avatar system in a cafe shows that, leveraging their existing skills, remote workers with disabilities were able to utilize the system to control up to four robots, each with a different function, to assist customers in a cafe. The parallel avatar systems expand the agency and the capabilities of disabled workers, while also delivering better experiences to customers.

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