Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Designing Accessible Systems for Users with Multiple Impairments: Grand Challenges and Opportunities for Future ResearchShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Historically, the accessibility community has focused on designing assistive technologies and systems related to single categories of impairments. While this approach is justifiable and contributes to the advancement of the field, many researchers argue that designing technologies for one impairment at a time contributes to an oversimplification of disability and does not reflect real-world experiences of a significant number of users who live with multiple impairments. How can the accessibility field leverage theories and concepts from other disciplines (e.g. disability studies, medical humanities, social work, engineering, education) to support more appropriate and inclusive technologies for users with complex needs How can future assistive technologies take into consideration a diverse combination of sensory, cognitive, and physical characteristics In this workshop, we invite researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share their perspectives related to challenges and opportunities in designing accessible systems that consider the multidimensional and often complex needs of users living with multiple impairments.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022.
Keywords [en]
Accessibility, Assistive Technologies, Disability Studies, Multiple Impairments
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Research subject
Library and Information Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-28938DOI: 10.1145/3517428.3550405ISI: 001146369800105Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85141145166OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-28938DiVA, id: diva2:1711988
Conference
24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2022, Athens, Greece, 23 - 26 October, 2022.
2022-11-182022-11-182024-10-01Bibliographically approved