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Daedalus in the Dark: Designing for Non-Visual Accessible Construction of Laser-Cut Architecture

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Ruei-Che Chang,

Fang-Ying Liao,

Seraphina Yong,

Bing-Yu ChenAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '21: The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Pages 344 - 358

https://doi.org/10.1145/3472749.3474754

Published: 12 October 2021 Publication History

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Design tools and research regarding laser-cut architectures have been widely explored in the past decade. However, such discussion has mostly revolved around technical and structural design questions instead of another essential element of laser-cut models — assembly — a process that relies heavily on components’ visual affordance, therefore less accessible to blind or low vision (BLV) people. To narrow the gap in this area, we co-designed with 7 BLV people to examine their assembly experience with different laser-cut architectures. From their feedback, we proposed several design heuristics and guidelines for Daedalus, a generative design tool that can produce tactile aids for laser-cut assembly given a few high-level manual inputs. We validate the proposed aids in a user study with 8 new BLV participants. Our results revealed that BLV users can manage laser-cut assembly more efficiently with Daedalus. Going forth from this design iteration, we discuss implications for future research on accessible laser-cut assembly.

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