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Do-It-Yourself Empowerment as Experienced by Novice Makers with Disabilities

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Janis Lena Meissner,

Janice McLaughlin,

Jekaterina Maksimova,

Peter WrightAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Pages 1053 - 1065

https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064674

Published: 10 June 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Recent HCI research has highlighted the potential afforded by maker technologies for supporting new forms of DIY Assistive Technology (DIY-AT) for people with disabilities. Furthermore, the popular discourse surrounding both the maker movement and disability is one of democratisation and empowerment. Despite this, critics argue that maker movement membership lacks diversity and that within DIY-AT, it is seldom the people with disabilities who are creating such designs. We conducted a qualitative study that explored how people with disabilities experience the empowering potential of making. We analysed online videos by makers with disabilities and conducted fieldwork at two makerspaces. These informed the design of DIY-Abilities, a series of workshops for people with disabilities in which participants could learn different maker technologies and complete their own maker project. Through analysis of participants' narratives we contribute a new perspective on the specific social and material capacities of accessible maker initiatives.

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DIS '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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