Ibrahim, SB;
Vasalou, A;
Clarke, M;
(2020)
Can design documentaries disrupt design for disability?
In:
IDC '20: Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference.
(pp. pp. 96-107).
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): New York, NY, USA.
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Abstract
This paper shows how design documentaries can motivate new perspectives for design and disability. We critically consider the ways in which design documentaries can foreground children's lived experiences and priorities, in cases where it is not always possible to involve children early on in the design process. By presenting a design case for supporting communication that involves children with severe speech and physical impairments and their social peers, we discuss how this narrative method can evoke designer empathy and guide new interpretations. Our findings show that design documentaries can convey to designers rich and multifaceted accounts of children's communication experiences. Although this is found to be generative, we also identify a tension with a bodily impairment understanding of disability. Drawing on reflections from our case study, we propose new methodological implications for embedding design documentaries in the design process of technologies for disability.
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