Designing Equal Participation in Informal Learning for People with Visual Impairment
Informal learning opportunities that complement formal education with diversity and flexibility are abundant in our daily lives. While sighted people take advantage of such learning and may take it for granted, people with visual impairment are sometimes excluded, due to their sight loss, from acces...
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| author | Chien Wen Yuan Benjamin V. Hanrahan Sooyeon Lee John M. Carroll |
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| description | Informal learning opportunities that complement formal education with diversity and flexibility are abundant in our daily lives. While sighted people take advantage of such learning and may take it for granted, people with visual impairment are sometimes excluded, due to their sight loss, from accessing informal learning, social interaction, and civic engagement. In this sense, they are not equal participants in the highly visual, sighted world. This paper investigates the needs of people with visual impairment, identifies issues, and suggests a direction to support equal participation. We propose four environment scenarios, grounded in our field work, to describe how to support learning and interaction in a sighted world. We discuss how design implications derived from our scenario-based analysis can help guide technological interventions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d85d725dfef44ffcb70be41611675e012023-09-03T13:37:09ZengASLERDInteraction Design and Architecture(s)1826-97452283-29982015-12-01279310610.55612/s-5002-027-006Designing Equal Participation in Informal Learning for People with Visual ImpairmentChien Wen YuanBenjamin V. HanrahanSooyeon LeeJohn M. CarrollInformal learning opportunities that complement formal education with diversity and flexibility are abundant in our daily lives. While sighted people take advantage of such learning and may take it for granted, people with visual impairment are sometimes excluded, due to their sight loss, from accessing informal learning, social interaction, and civic engagement. In this sense, they are not equal participants in the highly visual, sighted world. This paper investigates the needs of people with visual impairment, identifies issues, and suggests a direction to support equal participation. We propose four environment scenarios, grounded in our field work, to describe how to support learning and interaction in a sighted world. We discuss how design implications derived from our scenario-based analysis can help guide technological interventions.https://ixdea.org/wp-content/uploads/IxDEA_art/27/27_6.pdfscenario-based design; informalinformalsocial learningaccessibilityvisual impairmentpositive design |
| spellingShingle | Chien Wen Yuan Benjamin V. Hanrahan Sooyeon Lee John M. Carroll Designing Equal Participation in Informal Learning for People with Visual Impairment Interaction Design and Architecture(s) scenario-based design; informal informal social learning accessibility visual impairment positive design |
| title | Designing Equal Participation in Informal Learning for People with Visual Impairment |
| title_full | Designing Equal Participation in Informal Learning for People with Visual Impairment |
| title_fullStr | Designing Equal Participation in Informal Learning for People with Visual Impairment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designing Equal Participation in Informal Learning for People with Visual Impairment |
| title_short | Designing Equal Participation in Informal Learning for People with Visual Impairment |
| title_sort | designing equal participation in informal learning for people with visual impairment |
| topic | scenario-based design; informal informal social learning accessibility visual impairment positive design |
| url | https://ixdea.org/wp-content/uploads/IxDEA_art/27/27_6.pdf |
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