Hacking, Switching, Combining: Understanding and Supporting DIY Assistive Technology Design by Blind People

被引:13
作者
Herskovitz, Jaylin [1 ]
Xu, Andi [1 ]
Alharbi, Rahaf [1 ]
Guo, Anhong [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
来源
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2023 CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS (CHI 2023) | 2023年
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Accessibility; Assistive technology; Do-It-Yourself; Blind; Visual impairment; Interview; Design;
D O I
10.1145/3544548.3581249
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
Existing assistive technologies (AT) often fail to support the unique needs of blind and visually impaired (BVI) people. Thus, BVI people have become domain experts in customizing and 'hacking' AT, creatively suiting their needs. We aim to understand this behavior in depth, and how BVI people envision creating future DIY personalized AT. We conducted a multi-part qualitative study with 12 blind participants: an interview on unique uses of AT, a two-week diary study to log use cases, and a scenario-based design session to imagine creating future technologies. We found that participants work to design new AT both implicitly through creative use cases, and explicitly through regular ideation and development. Participants envisioned creating a variety of new technologies, and we summarize expected benefits and concerns of using a DIY technology approach. From our results, we present design considerations for future DIY technology systems to support existing customization and 'hacking' behaviors.
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