Disability Interactions: Creating Inclusive Innovations

Holloway, Catherine; Barbareschi, Giulia

doi:10.2200/s01141ed1v01y202111hci053

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“…Co-design is an important tool for inclusive research practice [44,86]. At all stages of the research, participants were encouraged to make suggestions for improvements or to devise new icons for the same map features.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

TactIcons: Designing 3D Printed Map Icons for People who are Blind or have Low Vision

Holloway

Butler

Marriott

2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Fig. 1. Design and touch testing of 3D printed tactile icons for maps of parks, playgrounds and shops.Visual icons provide immediate recognition of features on print maps but do not translate well for touch reading by people who are blind or have low vision due to the low fidelity of tactile perception. We explored 3D printed icons as an equivalent to visual icons for tactile maps addressing these problems. We designed over 200 tactile icons (TactIcons) for street and park maps. These were touch tested by blind and sighted people, resulting in a corpus of 33 icons that can be recognised instantly and a further 34 icons that are easily learned. Importantly, this work has informed the creation of detailed guidelines for the design of TactIcons and a practical methodology for touch testing new TactIcons. It is hoped that this work will contribute to the creation of more inclusive, user-friendly tactile maps for people who are blind or have low vision.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

TactIcons: Designing 3D Printed Map Icons for People who are Blind or have Low Vision

Holloway

Butler

Marriott

2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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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].…”

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confidence: 99%

Accessible Parallel Embodiment of Multiple Robotic Avatars in a Cafe

Barbareschi¹,

Kawaguchi

Kato

et al. 2022

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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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