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Designing for "a" user: Stephen Hawking's UI

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PDC '16: Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops - Volume 2

Pages 94 - 95

https://doi.org/10.1145/2948076.2948112

Published: 15 August 2016 Publication History

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We present the Assistive Context Aware Toolkit (ACAT), a software platform that was designed for Professor Stephen Hawking to enable him to control his PC and communicate with others. While typical design practices focus on the needs of a large number of users, designing ACAT was an exploration targeted for a single user. We focused on understanding the needs of Professor Hawking, his assistants, and care-givers; explored his existing system, and its shortcomings; and iteratively designed and implemented a solution to address these needs and gaps. To support this iterative design and implementation, we designed and developed a configurable system that allowed us to explore different designs with minimal implementation effort. As a result, while ACAT was meant to address a single user, it turned into a tool that can easily be configured to support a wider range of disabilities and constraints. We will walk through our design journey, explain how ACAT evolved over time to serve Stephen's needs, and how it can be extended to support many others.

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Designing for "a" user: Stephen Hawking's UI
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Participatory design

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PDC '16: Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops - Volume 2

August 2016

142 pages

ISBN:9781450341363

DOI:10.1145/2948076

Editors:
Claus Bossen
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
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Rachel Charlotte Smith
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
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Anne Marie Kanstrup
E-learning lab, Department of Communication and Psychology, The Faculty of Humanities, Aalborg University
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Janet McDonnell
University of the Arts London, UK
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Maurizio Teli
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal
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Keld Bødker
Roskilde Universitetscenter, Denmark

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