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Touch, E-textiles and Participation: Using E-textiles to Facilitate Hands-On Making Workshops with Blind and Visually-Impaired People

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DIS '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems

Pages 384 - 385

https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079164

Published: 10 June 2017 Publication History

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My research explores the potential of touch and e-textiles -- particularly for exploration and expression -- when working with blind and visually impaired people. The research takes a participatory design approach, facilitating design and creation of e-textiles in hands-on making workshops. Outcomes are expected to include insights into how to structure tools, materials and activity to best empower this user group, an assessment of the potential of e-textiles as an expressive medium, to gain a better understanding of how this user group associates touch and sound with memory and how technology can help them tell their own stories.

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Theil ABuchweitz LFuentes MKorn OWakkary RAndersen KOdom WDesjardins APetersen M(2020)Co-Designing Assistive Tools to Support Social Interactions by Individuals Living with DeafblindnessCompanion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3393914.3395869(79-83)Online publication date: 6-Jul-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3393914.3395869

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Touch, E-textiles and Participation: Using E-textiles to Facilitate Hands-On Making Workshops with Blind and Visually-Impaired People
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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DIS '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems

June 2017

424 pages

ISBN:9781450349918

DOI:10.1145/3064857

General Chair:
Oli Mival
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
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Michael Smyth
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
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Peter Dalsgaard
Aarhus University, Denmark

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Cochrane KNguyen CCao YRoestel NJones LGirouard A(2023)Adaptive Soft Switches: Co-Designing Fabric Adaptive Switches with Occupational Therapists for Children and Adolescents with Acquired Brain InjuryProceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3569009.3572734(1-14)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2023
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Theil ABuchweitz LFuentes MKorn OWakkary RAndersen KOdom WDesjardins APetersen M(2020)Co-Designing Assistive Tools to Support Social Interactions by Individuals Living with DeafblindnessCompanion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3393914.3395869(79-83)Online publication date: 6-Jul-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3393914.3395869

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