Ebook: Designing Accessible Technology

Rapid and unprecedented population ageing poses a serious social and economic challenge across the developed world. Shifts in dependency ratios point to escalating welfare and pensions costs which require radical and imaginative responses from Government and industry. The key to this is maintaining a healthy population that is able and willing to work longer before retirement and can remain independent for as long as possible afterwards as well as bringing disabled people into mainstream life and employment.

This book was stimulated by the third CWUAAT workshop, held in Cambridge, England in April 2006; the contributors representing leading researchers in the fields of Inclusive Design, Rehabilitation Robotics, Universal Access and Assistive Technology.

Contributions focus on the following topics:

• design issues for a more inclusive world;
• enabling computer access and the development of new technologies;
• assistive technology and rehabilitation robotics; and,
• understanding users and involving them in design.

The CWUAAT workshops have a general focus on product and solution development. As a result, many of the requirements for the successful design of assistive and accessible technology have been addressed and these range from the identification and capture of the needs of the users, through to the development and evaluation of truly usable and accessible systems for users with special needs.

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Rapid and unprecedented population ageing poses a serious social and economic challenge across the developed world. Shifts in dependency ratios point to escalating welfare and pensions costs which require radical and imaginative responses from Government and industry. The key to this is maintaining a healthy population that is able and willing to work longer before retirement and can remain independent for as long as possible afterwards as well as bringing disabled people into mainstream life and employment.

This book was stimulated by the third CWUAAT workshop, held in Cambridge, England in April 2006; the contributors representing leading researchers in the fields of Inclusive Design, Rehabilitation Robotics, Universal Access and Assistive Technology.

Contributions focus on the following topics:

• design issues for a more inclusive world;
• enabling computer access and the development of new technologies;
• assistive technology and rehabilitation robotics; and,
• understanding users and involving them in design.

The CWUAAT workshops have a general focus on product and solution development. As a result, many of the requirements for the successful design of assistive and accessible technology have been addressed and these range from the identification and capture of the needs of the users, through to the development and evaluation of truly usable and accessible systems for users with special needs.

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Rapid and unprecedented population ageing poses a serious social and economic challenge across the developed world. Shifts in dependency ratios point to escalating welfare and pensions costs which require radical and imaginative responses from Government and industry. The key to this is maintaining a healthy population that is able and willing to work longer before retirement and can remain independent for as long as possible afterwards as well as bringing disabled people into mainstream life and employment.

This book was stimulated by the third CWUAAT workshop, held in Cambridge, England in April 2006; the contributors representing leading researchers in the fields of Inclusive Design, Rehabilitation Robotics, Universal Access and Assistive Technology.

Contributions focus on the following topics:

• design issues for a more inclusive world;
• enabling computer access and the development of new technologies;
• assistive technology and rehabilitation robotics; and,
• understanding users and involving them in design.

The CWUAAT workshops have a general focus on product and solution development. As a result, many of the requirements for the successful design of assistive and accessible technology have been addressed and these range from the identification and capture of the needs of the users, through to the development and evaluation of truly usable and accessible systems for users with special needs.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Inclusive Challenge: A Multidisciplinary Educational Approach....Pages 3-12
Universal Design in Japanese Technological Industries....Pages 13-19
Encouraging Inclusive Design Through Standardisation....Pages 21-30
Factors Involved in Industry’s Response to Inclusive Design....Pages 31-39
Providing Strategic User Information for Designers: Methods and Initial Findings....Pages 41-51
Design for Inclusion....Pages 53-63
Designers’ Use of the Artefact in Human-centred Design....Pages 65-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Introducing COGAIN — Communication by Gaze Interaction....Pages 77-84
Older Users’ Requirements for Interactive Television....Pages 85-92
InclusiveCAD: A Software Resource for Designers....Pages 93-99
Towards an Interactive System Eliciting Narrative Comprehension in Children with Autism: A Longitudinal Study....Pages 101-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Collaborative Visual-servoing of the MANUS Manipulator....Pages 117-126
User-centred Approach to the Design and Evaluation of a Stair-climbing Aid....Pages 127-134
The SMART Project: A User Led Approach to Developing Applications for Domiciliary Stroke Rehabilitation....Pages 135-144
Non-speech Operated Emulation of Keyboard....Pages 145-154
Dysarthric Speech Measures for Use in Evidence-based Speech Therapy....Pages 155-164
Non-formal Therapy and Learning Potentials Through Human Gesture Synchronised to Robotic Gesture....Pages 165-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Inclusive Design Evaluation and the Capability-demand Relationship....Pages 177-188
Investigating the Role of Experience in the Use of Consumer Products....Pages 189-198
Software Co-design with Older People....Pages 199-208
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Creating User Centred Creative Design Tools for the Packaging Industry Using Video Ethnographic Research Techniques....Pages 209-214
Differing Perspectives on Telecare: An Attitudinal Survey of Older People, Professional Care Workers and Informal Carers....Pages 215-225
Away from Home (Public) Toilet Design: Identifying User Wants, Needs and Aspirations....Pages 227-236
Involving People with Dementia in the Development of a Discussion Forum: A Community-centred Approach....Pages 237-247
Back Matter....Pages 249-250

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Rapid and unprecedented population ageing poses a serious social and economic challenge across the developed world. Shifts in dependency ratios point to escalating welfare and pensions costs which require radical and imaginative responses from Government and industry. The key to this is maintaining a healthy population that is able and willing to work longer before retirement and can remain independent for as long as possible afterwards as well as bringing disabled people into mainstream life and employment.

This book was stimulated by the third CWUAAT workshop, held in Cambridge, England in April 2006; the contributors representing leading researchers in the fields of Inclusive Design, Rehabilitation Robotics, Universal Access and Assistive Technology.

Contributions focus on the following topics:

• design issues for a more inclusive world;
• enabling computer access and the development of new technologies;
• assistive technology and rehabilitation robotics; and,
• understanding users and involving them in design.

The CWUAAT workshops have a general focus on product and solution development. As a result, many of the requirements for the successful design of assistive and accessible technology have been addressed and these range from the identification and capture of the needs of the users, through to the development and evaluation of truly usable and accessible systems for users with special needs.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Inclusive Challenge: A Multidisciplinary Educational Approach....Pages 3-12
Universal Design in Japanese Technological Industries....Pages 13-19
Encouraging Inclusive Design Through Standardisation....Pages 21-30
Factors Involved in Industry’s Response to Inclusive Design....Pages 31-39
Providing Strategic User Information for Designers: Methods and Initial Findings....Pages 41-51
Design for Inclusion....Pages 53-63
Designers’ Use of the Artefact in Human-centred Design....Pages 65-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Introducing COGAIN — Communication by Gaze Interaction....Pages 77-84
Older Users’ Requirements for Interactive Television....Pages 85-92
InclusiveCAD: A Software Resource for Designers....Pages 93-99
Towards an Interactive System Eliciting Narrative Comprehension in Children with Autism: A Longitudinal Study....Pages 101-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Collaborative Visual-servoing of the MANUS Manipulator....Pages 117-126
User-centred Approach to the Design and Evaluation of a Stair-climbing Aid....Pages 127-134
The SMART Project: A User Led Approach to Developing Applications for Domiciliary Stroke Rehabilitation....Pages 135-144
Non-speech Operated Emulation of Keyboard....Pages 145-154
Dysarthric Speech Measures for Use in Evidence-based Speech Therapy....Pages 155-164
Non-formal Therapy and Learning Potentials Through Human Gesture Synchronised to Robotic Gesture....Pages 165-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Inclusive Design Evaluation and the Capability-demand Relationship....Pages 177-188
Investigating the Role of Experience in the Use of Consumer Products....Pages 189-198
Software Co-design with Older People....Pages 199-208
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Creating User Centred Creative Design Tools for the Packaging Industry Using Video Ethnographic Research Techniques....Pages 209-214
Differing Perspectives on Telecare: An Attitudinal Survey of Older People, Professional Care Workers and Informal Carers....Pages 215-225
Away from Home (Public) Toilet Design: Identifying User Wants, Needs and Aspirations....Pages 227-236
Involving People with Dementia in the Development of a Discussion Forum: A Community-centred Approach....Pages 237-247
Back Matter....Pages 249-250
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