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Empowering people with impairments: how participatory methods can inform the design of empowering artifacts

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Jelle van Dijk,

Niels Hendriks,

Christopher Frauenberger,

Fenne Verhoeven,

Karin Slegers,

Eva Brandt,

Rita Maldonado BrancoAuthors Info & Claims

PDC '16: Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops - Volume 2

Pages 121 - 122

https://doi.org/10.1145/2948076.2948101

Published: 15 August 2016 Publication History

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Participatory Design has developed methods that empower people with impairments to actively take part in the design process. Many designed artifacts for this target group likewise aim to empower their users in daily life. In this workshop, we share and relate best practices of both empowering methods and empowering designs. Participants are therefore invited to bring along cases of designing for- and with people with sensory-, cognitive- or social impairments. Our workshop consists of three parts: (1) Foregrounding empowering elements in PD methods using method stories, containing the backstory of a method put into practice; (2) Reflecting on technological artifacts, exploring the empowering qualities of person-artifact-context interaction; (3) constructing a critical synopsis of the various relationships between empowering products and - methods.

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Empowering people with impairments: how participatory methods can inform the design of empowering artifacts
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. Field studies
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods

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PDC '16: Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops - Volume 2

August 2016

142 pages

ISBN:9781450341363

DOI:10.1145/2948076

Editors:
Claus Bossen
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
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Rachel Charlotte Smith
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
,
Anne Marie Kanstrup
E-learning lab, Department of Communication and Psychology, The Faculty of Humanities, Aalborg University
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Janet McDonnell
University of the Arts London, UK
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Maurizio Teli
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal
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Keld Bødker
Roskilde Universitetscenter, Denmark

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