Participatory Design (PD) with Disabled Communities

Overview

Prototypes have been developed through participatory design (PD) approaches. Individuals with disabilities can play an active role in the design process. This can lead to greater levels of user buy-in by disabled users. Studies have been undertaken with individuals who are blind, individuals with learning differences and individuals with SIIDs. The needs of blind situationally-impaired users have also been investigated.

Kuber, R., Yu, W. & O'Modhrain, M.S. 2011: Evaluation of Haptic HTML Mappings Derived from a Novel Methodology. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 3 (4), Article 12.
Kuber, R., Yu, W. & O'Modhrain, M.S. 2010: Tactile Web Browsing for Blind Users In proceedings of Haptic Audio Interaction Design'10 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6306), Copenhagen, Denmark, 75-84.
Kuber, R., Yu, W. & McAllister, G. 2007: Towards Developing Assistive Haptic Feedback for Visually Impaired Internet Users. In proceedings of CHI'07, San Jose, USA, 1525-1534.

Anthony, L., Prasad, S., Hurst, A. & Kuber, R. 2012: A Participatory Design Workshop on Accessible Apps and Games with Students with Learning Differences. In proceedings of ASSETS'12, Boulder, USA, 253-254.
Carrington, P., Kuber, R., Anthony, L., Hurst, A. & Prasad, S. 2012: Developing an Interface to Support Procedural Memory Training using a Participatory-Based Approach. In proceedings of BCS HCI'12, Birmingham, UK, 333-338.

Wolf, F., Soni, P., Kuber, R., Pawluk, D. & Turnage, B., 2019: Addressing the Situational Impairments Encountered by Firefighters through the Design of Alerts. In proceedings of W4A’19, Article No 22, 1–10
Saulynas, S. & Kuber, R. 2019: Understanding and Supporting Individuals Experiencing Severely Constraining Situational Impairments. Universal Access in the Information Society. DOI: 10.1007/s10209-019-00705-7.
Wolf, F., Kuber, R., Pawluk, D. & Turnage, B. 2017: Towards Supporting Individuals with Situational Impairments in Inhospitable Environments. In proceedings of ASSETS’17, 349-350.
Abdolrahmani, A., Kuber, R. & Hurst, A. 2016: An Empirical Investigation of the Situationally-Induced Impairments Experienced by Blind Mobile Device Users. In proceedings of W4A'16, Montreal, Canada.
Qian, H., Kuber, R. & Sears, A. 2013: Designing Tactile Feedback to Support Mobile Users when Situationally Impaired. In proceedings of ASSETS'13, Bellevue, USA, Article No: 47.