Reframing Disability as Competency: Unpacking Everyday Technology Practices of People with Visual Impairments

Reyes-Cruz, Gisela; Fischer, Joel E.; Reeves, Stuart

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376767

Cited by 36 publications

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“…For some users, using speech is not only preferable but an essential way to interact with a device [Corbett and Weber 2016]. Speech input and output can be critical in supporting people with limited motor capabilities [Corbett and Weber 2016], those who have visual impairments [Abdolrahmani et al 2018, Reyes-Cruz et al 2020, as well as having the potential to support interaction for older adult users [Sayago et al 2019]. For diverse demographics, speech can provide accessibility interactions where other modalities (e.g.…”

Section: Fundamental Considerations When Designing Expressive Agents 141 Should You Use Speech At All?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Building and Designing Expressive Speech Synthesis

Aylett¹,

Clark²,

Cowan³

et al. 2021

The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents

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You all know the test for artificial intelligence -the Turing test. A human judge has a conversation with a human and a computer. If the judge can't tell the machine apart from the human, the machine has passed the test. I now propose a test for computer voices -the Ebert test. If a computer voice can successfully tell a joke and do the timing and delivery as well as Henny Youngman, then that's the voice I want." -Roger Ebert.

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Section: Fundamental Considerations When Designing Expressive Agents 141 Should You Use Speech At All?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Building and Designing Expressive Speech Synthesis

Aylett¹,

Clark²,

Cowan³

et al. 2021

The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents

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“…A large part of the HCI research focusing on understanding how people access and use mobile phones in their daily lives has been mainly carried out in high-resourced settings [9,21,57,70]. However, in recent years, a growing body of evidence has started to examine the unique social and infrastructural dynamics that shape the use of mobile phones in low resourced settings [4,32,54,58].…”

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Bridging the Divide: Exploring the use of digital and physical technology to aid mobility impaired people living in an informal settlement

Barbareschi

Oldfrey²,

Long

et al. 2020

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

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Living in informality is challenging. It is even harder when you have a mobility impairment. Traditional assistive products such as wheelchairs are essential to enable people to travel. Wheelchairs are considered a Human Right. However, they are difficult to access. On the other hand, mobile phones are becoming ubiquitous and are increasingly seen as an assistive technology. Should therefore a mobile phone be considered a Human Right? To help understand the role of the mobile phone in contrast of a more traditional assistive technology -the wheelchair, we conducted contextual interviews with eight mobility impaired people who live in Kibera, a large informal settlement in Nairobi. Our findings show mobile phones act as an accessibility bridge when physical accessibility becomes too challenging. We explore our findings from two perspective -human infrastructure and interdependence, contributing an understanding of the role supported interactions play in enabling both the wheelchair and the mobile phone to be used. This further demonstrates the critical nature of designing for context and understanding the social fabric that characterizes informal settlements. It is this social fabric which enables the technology to be useable.

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“…Along gender, work has discussed how most health related technology research addresses almost exclusively white cis-male bodies [3] and how gender is reductively encoded and materialised along binary, immutable concepts [119]. Further critique has addressed how disabled bodies are systematically kept out of assistive technology research [76] instead of being attributed unique expertise [105] or just being acknowledged as colleagues [134]. These experiences are echoed by BIPOC 3 scholars regarding the systemic oppression of their research as well as their person, urging the field to adopt perspectives and epistemologies informed by Critical Race Theory [101].…”

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The Bodies of TEI – Investigating Norms and Assumptions in the Design of Embodied Interaction

Spiel

2021

Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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In the few decades since the first mainframe computers, computing technologies have grown smaller, and more pervasive, moving onto and even inside human bodies. Even as those bodies have received increased attention by scholars, designers, and technologists, the bodily expectations and understandings articulated by these technological artefacts have not been a focus of inquiry in the field. I conducted a feminist content analysis on select papers in the proceeding of the ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) since its inception in 2007. My analysis illustrates how artefacts are implicitly oriented on unmarked bodily norms, while technologies designed for nonnormative bodies treat those as deviant and in need of correction. Subsequently, I derive a range of provocations focused on material bodies in embodied interaction which offer a point of reflection and identify potentials for future work in the field. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models; Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms; • Social and professional topics → User characteristics.

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Reframing Disability as Competency: Unpacking Everyday Technology Practices of People with Visual Impairments

Cited by 36 publications

References 52 publications

Building and Designing Expressive Speech Synthesis

Building and Designing Expressive Speech Synthesis

Bridging the Divide: Exploring the use of digital and physical technology to aid mobility impaired people living in an informal settlement

The Bodies of TEI – Investigating Norms and Assumptions in the Design of Embodied Interaction

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