Designing with and for people with intellectual disabilities

Soares Guedes, Leandro and Gibson, Ryan Colin and Ellis, Kirsten and Sitbon, Laurianne and Landoni, Monica; (2022) Designing with and for people with intellectual disabilities. In: ASSETS 2022 - Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. ASSETS 2022 - Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility . ACM, GRC, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781450392587 (https://doi.org/10.1145/3517428.3550406)

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Abstract

People with intellectual disabilities often experience inequalities that affect the standard of their everyday lives. Assistive technologies can help alleviate some of these inequalities, yet abandonment rates remain high. This is in part due to a lack of involvement of all stakeholders in their design and evaluation, thus resulting in outputs that do not meet this cohort’s complex and heterogeneous needs. The aim of this half-day workshop is to focus on community building in a field that is relatively thin and disjointed, thereby enabling researchers to share experiences on how to design for and with people with intellectual disabilities, provide internal support, and establish new collaborations. Workshop outcomes will help to fill a gap in the available guidelines on how to include people with intellectual disabilities in research, through more accessible protocols as well as personalised and better fit-for-purpose technologies.

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