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

Jelle  van Dijk; Niels Hendriks; Christopher Frauenberger; Fenne Verhoeven; Karin Slegers; Eva Brandt; Rita Maldonado Branco

doi:10.1145/2948076.2948101

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

Jelle van Dijk, Niels Hendriks, Christopher Frauenberger, Fenne Verhoeven, Karin Slegers, Eva Brandt, Rita Maldonado Branco

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PDC '16
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	121-122
Number of pages	2
Volume	2
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-4136-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2948076.2948101
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2016
Event	14th Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2016 - Aarhus, Denmark Duration: 15 Aug 2016 → 19 Aug 2016 Conference number: 14

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Conference	14th Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2016
Abbreviated title	PDC
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aarhus
Period	15/08/16 → 19/08/16

Keywords

Artifact
Assistive technology
Empowerment
Impairment
Method stories
Participatory methods
Product design

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van Dijk, J., Hendriks, N., Frauenberger, C., Verhoeven, F., Slegers, K., Brandt, E., & Branco, R. M. (2016). Empowering people with impairments: How participatory methods can inform the design of empowering artifacts. In PDC '16: Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops (Vol. 2, pp. 121-122). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2948076.2948101

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van Dijk, J, Hendriks, N, Frauenberger, C, Verhoeven, F, Slegers, K, Brandt, E & Branco, RM 2016, Empowering people with impairments: How participatory methods can inform the design of empowering artifacts. in PDC '16: Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops. vol. 2, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 121-122, 14th Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2016, Aarhus, Denmark, 15/08/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2948076.2948101

Empowering people with impairments: How participatory methods can inform the design of empowering artifacts. / van Dijk, Jelle ; Hendriks, Niels; Frauenberger, Christopher et al.
PDC '16: Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops. Vol. 2 Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. p. 121-122.

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