Build me a Ubicomp: bespoke ubiquitous accessibility in live television production environments

Kirkham, Reuben; Bartindale, Tom; Evans, Michael J.; Olivier, Patrick

doi:10.1007/s00779-015-0859-7

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“…One advantage of DIY-AT is that it is infnitely customisable and able to meet the specifc requirements of the person who has a disability. Bespoke DIY-AT empowers the development of devices from scratch to meet the needs of an individual's unique requirements [23,31]. Enabling consumer involvement and having a full consideration of long-term needs can improve long term adoption, especially by way of empowering individuals to create and modify their own Assistive Technology rather than reliance on of the shelf products [23,25].…”

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“…In this work, we focus upon a distinctive approach towards developing specifc AT for individuals, which we term Bespoke AT. Bespoke AT is distinguished from (most) DIY AT by being the case where professional engineers custom build new forms of assistive technology in collaboration with the end user (for example, as with CanAssist in Canada [1,31]). We argue that this approach can in principle avoid some of the limitations of DIY-AT, whilst being more intensive and ambitious in the resulting technology developed for (and necessarily in collaboration with) the end user.…”

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Bespoke Reflections: Creating a One-Handed Braille Keyboard

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Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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A plethora of assistive technologies are designed to cater to relatively common types of disabilities. However, some people have disabilities or circumstances that fall outside these pluralities, requiring a bespoke assistive technology to be developed and custom built to meet their unique requirements. To explore the opportunities and challenges of such an endeavor, we document the process undertaken to build a braille keyboard for a one-handed blind person over the course of 18-months. This process involved iterative prototyping within an intensive co-creation process, due to the unique needs arising from having two intersecting impairments and the challenges of efectively developing an entirely new format of AAT. Through a structured refection on this process, we provide an account of the practical, pragmatic and ethical considerations that apply when developing a bespoke assistive technology, whilst illustrating the wider value of bespoke assistive technology development for a more general community of people with disabilities. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Accessibility; Accessibility design and evaluation methods; Accessibility; Accessibility technologies.

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Bespoke Reflections: Creating a One-Handed Braille Keyboard

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“…due to a comorbid cognitive impairment): in this case there can be considerable physical demands placed on this operator [1,2]. For persons who lack physical strength, coordination or control in respect of their upper arms, or those who simply lack physical stamina due to a health condition, an electric wheelchair or scooter would be used: as with manual wheelchairs, there can be a considerable degree of customisation involved in the design of these systems: they are bespoke to the user [18,20,39]. In general, an electric wheelchair or scooter is a four wheeled vehicle which is powered electrically by one or more motors, and normally controlled by some kind of joystick or steering wheel.…”

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Analyzing Accessibility Barriers Using Cost-Benefit Analysis to Design Reliable Navigation Services for Wheelchair Users

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Kirkham

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2019

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019

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This paper explores 'A to B' routing tools designed to chart accessible routes for wheelchair users. We develop and present a novel measurement framework based upon cost-benefit analysis in order to evaluate the real-world utility of routing systems for wheelchair users. Using this framework, we compare proposed routes generated by accessibility tools with the pedestrian routes generated by Google Maps by means of conducting expert assessments of the situation on the ground. Relative to tools aimed at pedestrians, we find that these tools are not significantly more likely to produce an accessible route, and more often than not, they present longer routes that arise from imaginary barriers that do not exist in the real world. This analysis indicates how future routing tools for wheelchair users should be designed to ensure that they genuinely ameliorate the effects of accessibility barriers in the built environment.

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Lightweight knowledge-based authentication model for intelligent closed circuit television in mobile personal computing

Kim

Park

2019

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Build me a Ubicomp: bespoke ubiquitous accessibility in live television production environments

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Bespoke Reflections: Creating a One-Handed Braille Keyboard

Bespoke Reflections: Creating a One-Handed Braille Keyboard

Analyzing Accessibility Barriers Using Cost-Benefit Analysis to Design Reliable Navigation Services for Wheelchair Users

Lightweight knowledge-based authentication model for intelligent closed circuit television in mobile personal computing

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