Designing gardening applications to engage people with intellectual disability in gardening activities
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Abstract
People with intellectual disability like to engage in outdoor activities such as gardening. Many adults with intellectual disability also like using applications such as social media and mobile games in their leisure time. This study looked to co-design applications to help engage people in the gardening activities conducted at a disability day centre. The research team worked with a partner disability organisation and worked with support workers and people with intellectual disability to co-design applications that included both parties values and requirements. One application focussed on the social aspect of gardening along with tracking the growth of plants whereas the second application focussed on gamifying learning about things found in the garden. The features of the apps that engaged the participants are discussed in this paper.
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