Making "Making" accessible

Amy Hurst; Shaun Kane

doi:10.1145/2485760.2485883

Making "Making" accessible

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Abstract

Assistive technologies empower individuals to accomplish tasks they might not be able to do otherwise. Unfortunately, a large percentage of assistive devices that are purchased (35% or more) end up unused or abandoned [8], leaving many people with assistive technology that is inappropriate for their needs. This paper describes our ongoing work to help more people gain access to the assistive technology they need by empowering non-engineers to "Do-It-Yourself" (DIY), and thus create, modify, or build their own assistive technology. We discuss how a new generation of rapid prototyping tools and online communities can empower more individuals, and we describe two technologies we have developed to enable novices to prototype and create physical objects.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of IDC 2013 - The 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Pages	635-638
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2485760.2485883
State	Published - 2013
Event	12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2013 - New York, NY, United States Duration: Jun 24 2013 → Jun 27 2013

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Other	12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2013
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York, NY
Period	6/24/13 → 6/27/13

Keywords

Assistive Technology
Do-It-Yourself
Empowerment
Human-Centered Computing
Online Communities
Personal-scale Manufacturing
Rapid Prototyping

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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