Breaking down barriers : usability, accessibility and inclusive design 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Langdon, Pat
• Lazar, Jonathan
• Heylighen, Ann
• Dong, Hua

Publisher

Springer International Publishing, 2018

Language

English

ISBN

9783319750286

Series

Subject(s)

• PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES--REHABILITATION--TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
• REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY
• USER INTERFACES (COMPUTER SYSTEMS)

Notes

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Abstract

The Cambridge Workshops on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) is one of the few gatherings where people interested in inclusive design, across different fields, including designers, computer scientists, engineers, architects, ergonomists, ethnographers, policymakers and user communities, meet, discuss, and collaborate. CWUAAT has also become an international workshop, representing diverse cultures including Portugal, Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, Australia, China, Norway, USA, Belgium, UK, and many more. The workshop has five main themes based on barriers identified in the developing field of design for inclusion: I Breaking Down Barriers between Disciplines II Breaking Down Barriers between Users, Designers and Developers III Removing Barriers to Usability, Accessibility and Inclusive Design IV Breaking Down Barriers between People with Impairments and Those without V Breaking Down Barriers between Research and Policy-making In the context of developing demographic changes leading to greater numbers of older people and people living with impairments, the general field of inclusive design research strives to relate the capabilities of the population to the design of products, services, and spaces. CWUAAT has always had a successful multidisciplinary focus, but if genuine transdisciplinary fields are to evolve from this, the final barriers to integrated research must be identified and characterised. Only then will benefits be realised in an inclusive society. Barriers do not arise from impairments themselves, but instead, are erected by humans, who often have not considered a greater variation in sensory, cognitive and physical user capabilities. Barriers are not only technical or architectural, but they also exist between different communities of professionals. Our continual goal with the CWUAAT workshop series is to break down barriers in technical, physical, and architectural design, as well as barriers between different professional communities.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xv, 286 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill. (in color.)

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Breaking Down Barriers Between Disciplines --
Breaking Down Barriers Between Users, Designers and Developers --
Removing Barriers to Usability, Accessibility and Inclusive Design --
Breaking Down Barriers Between People with Impairments and Those Without --
Breaking Down Barriers Between Scientists and Policy Makers --
Removing Barriers to Open Data and Open Government --
Recent Barriers to Effective Rehabilitation Robotics.

Exemplar(s)

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