Seventeen Projects Carried Out by Students Designing for and with Disabled Children: Identifying Designers' Difficulties During the Whole Design Process

Magnier, Cécile; Thomann, Guillaume; Villeneuve, François

doi:10.1080/10400435.2012.669808

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“…Tools to guide RPs in determining child preference and attitudes towards AT should be developed. Additionally, children may be involved in the design of AT to ensure it matches their preferences (33)(34)(35).…”

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Perspectives of rehabilitation professionals on assistive technology provision to young children in South Africa: a national survey

Niekerk

Dada

Tonsing

2021

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

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Purpose: Various factors influence the selection of assistive technology for young children within a context with limited resources, such as South Africa. Rehabilitation professionals are required to weigh up different factors as part of their professional reasoning process when making AT selections. Insight into the perceived influence of different factors may assist in understanding how professionals make decisions about AT in this context. Materials and methods: An online survey with questions designed using bestworst scaling was distributed to rehabilitation professionals throughout South Africa. Factors influencing assistive technology selection included in the best-worst survey were identified in previous phases of a larger project. A total of n = 451 rehabilitation professionals completed the survey by selecting the factors that were most and least influential on their assistive technology provision.Results: Results of the survey were obtained by calculating the number of times each factor was selected as most influential across the entire sample, and across all questions, enabling the researchers to sort the items in terms of the frequency of selection. Conclusions:Even though the rehabilitation professionals that participated in the study provide services in a context with limited resources, assessment and factors pertaining to the assistive technology itself were generally perceived to be of greater influence than environmental factors. It is recommended that these factors be reflected in frameworks and models of AT selection. IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONThe family's ability to support the implementation of AT is an important resource that is perceived to influence the selection of AT by an RP. Insight into the mind-set of professionals that are used to selecting AT within settings with limited resources may provide RPs in well-resourced contexts with guidance on how to do more, with less. RPs should aim to determine child preference and attitude towards AT during the AT selection process. RPs should be aware of their own influence on AT selection. Existing AT Selection models should be adapted to clearly reflect the influence of the recommending professional.

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Perspectives of rehabilitation professionals on assistive technology provision to young children in South Africa: a national survey

Niekerk

Dada

Tonsing

2021

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

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“…And lastly, researchers listed four others factors as (1) change in the needs of the user, (2) ease of purchase, (3) device performance and (4) consideration of user opinion in the selection process. Others researchers have analyzed seventeen projects carried out by students designing for and with disabled children [2]. In this situation, a coding scheme was built based on a review of the literature.…”

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How to teach interdisciplinary: case study for Product Design in Assistive Technology

Thomnn

Morais

Werba

2016

Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering

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In the medical field, Assistive Technologies (AT) are one of the most dynamic due to the evolution of the population (elderly and disable people). Dedicated products are complex to design and to manufacture because of the end users' specificities and particularities. The integration of multiples competencies in the design process are necessary to be able to define a complete list of requirements. This collaborative work with the involvement of the end user necessitate a reflection about the design method. Statistics of products abandonments illustrate the difficulty for companies to create a favorable working environment taken into account multiple parameters from various expertise.Based on these states of difficulties, the present study aims to develop an interdisciplinary experimented teaching situation focused on the use of Rapid Prototyping. The AT field has been chosen to develop this design process teaching. The favorable pedagogic context takes place in the Industrial Department of the Federal University of Paraiba. The proposal was to implicate several departments from this university to organize a complete course with the objective to teach Interdisciplinary in graduation level in the university: the initial idea was to give all necessary resources to the groups of students (two types of progressive workshop during the course); they choose the ones that are necessary to design and prototype something adapted to the user's requirements.

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“…Therefore, UCD adoption is believed to lead to better products [4]. However, there is limited evidence regarding the implementation of these approaches or if their results are having the intended impact across their target populations, particularly regarding AT [5–6]. This study aims to assess the application of ISO 9241-210 human-centred design principles in the allegedly “user-centred designed” assistive technology developments for persons with Visual Impairments (VI).…”

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Assessing the implementation of user-centred design standards on assistive technology for persons with visual impairments: A systematic review

Ortiz-Escobar

Chavarria

Schönenberger

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Despite scientific and technological advances in the field of assistive technology (AT) for people with visual impairment (VI), technological designs are frequently based on a poor understanding of the physical and social context of use, resulting in devices that are less than optimal for their intended beneficiaries. To resolve this situation, user-centred approaches in the development process of AT have been widely adopted in recent years. However, there is a lack of systematization on the application of this approach. This systematic review registered in PROSPERO (CRD42022307466), assesses the application of the ISO 9241-210 human-centred design principles in allegedly “user-centred designed” AT developments for persons with VI. The results point to a wide variation of the depth of understanding of user needs, a poor characterization of the application of the User Centred Design (UCD) approach in the initial design phases or in the early prototyping, and a vague description of user feedback and device iteration. Among the principles set out in ISO 9241-210, the application of 5.6: "the design team includes multidisciplinary skills and perspectives" is the one for which the least evidence is found. The results show there is not enough evidence to fully assess the impact of UCD in 1. promoting innovation regarding AT products and practices, and 2. Judging if AT produced following such standards is leading to better user access, wellbeing outcomes and satisfaction. To address this gap it is necessary to, first, generate better implementation of UCD in AT development and second, to strengthen evidence regarding the implementation and outcomes of using UCD for AT. To better engage with the realities of persons with VI, we propose capacity building across development teams regarding UCD, its principles and components; better planning for UCD implementation; and cross-fertilization across engineering disciplines and social and clinical science.

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Seventeen Projects Carried Out by Students Designing for and with Disabled Children: Identifying Designers' Difficulties During the Whole Design Process

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Perspectives of rehabilitation professionals on assistive technology provision to young children in South Africa: a national survey

Perspectives of rehabilitation professionals on assistive technology provision to young children in South Africa: a national survey

How to teach interdisciplinary: case study for Product Design in Assistive Technology

Assessing the implementation of user-centred design standards on assistive technology for persons with visual impairments: A systematic review

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