Designing for Inclusion, 1st ed. 2020
Inclusive Design: Looking Towards the Future

Coordinators: Langdon Patrick, Lazar Jonathan, Heylighen Ann, Dong Hua

Language: English

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This proceedings book presents papers from the 10th Cambridge Workshops on Universal Access and Assistive Technology. The CWUAAT series of workshops have celebrated a long history of interdisciplinarity, including design disciplines, computer scientists, engineers, architects, ergonomists, ethnographers, ethicists, policymakers, practitioners, and user communities. This reflects the wider increasing realisation over the long duration of the series that design for inclusion is not limited to technology, engineering disciplines, and computer science but instead requires an interdisciplinary approach. The key to this is providing a platform upon which the different disciplines can engage and see each other?s antecedents, methods, and point of view.

This proceedings book of the 10th CWUAAT conference presents papers in a variety of topics including

  • Reconciling usability, accessibility, and inclusive design;
  • Designing inclusive assistive and rehabilitationsystems;
  • Designing cognitive interaction with emerging technologies;
  • Designing inclusive architecture;
  • Data mining and visualising inclusion;
  • Legislation, standards, and policy in inclusive design;
  • Situational inclusive interfaces; and
  • The historical perspective: 20 years of CWUAAT.

CWUAAT has always aimed to be inclusive in the fields that it invites to the workshop. We must include social science, psychologies, anthropologies, economists, politics, governance, and business. This requirement is now energised by imminent new challenges arising from techno-social change. In particular, artificial intelligence, wireless technologies, and the Internet of Things generate a pressing need for more socially integrated projects with operational consequences on individuals in the built environment and at all levels of design and society. Business cases and urgent environmental issues such as sustainability and transportation should now be a focus point for inclusion in an increasingly challenging world. This proceedings book continues the goal of designing for inclusion, as set out by the CWUAAT when it first started.

Reconciling Usability, Accessibility and Inclusive Design.- Designing Inclusive Assistive and Rehabilitation Systems.- Measuring Product Demand and Peoples' Capabilities.- Designing Cognitive Interaction with Emerging Technologies.- Designing Inclusive Architecture: Buildings and Spaces.- Data Mining and Visualising Inclusion, User Profiling.- Legislation, Standards and Policy in Inclusive Design.- Situational Inclusive Interfaces: Automotive and Aerospace.

Patrick Langdon is an experimental psychologist who has contributed to cognitive science, artificial intelligence, robotics, and psychophysics. Now at the Cambridge University Engineering Design Centre, his most recent research has been in inclusive user-centred design, interaction design, prior experience, and multimodal interface profiling from cognitive modelling. Dr. Langdon was primary author and co-investigator of the successful EPSRC EQUAL “i~design 3” consortium project; “Extending Active Living Through More Effective Inclusive Design” (2006-2011), which he also managed. He was invited to join phase 2 of the (EPSRC/DST) India-UK Advanced Technology Centre, a centre of excellence for next generation network systems and services, where, with a team of recruited research associates, he has built on recent success developing UI technology to support adaptive user interfaces that are accessible to the wider range of users, having impact in both the UK and India. Pat Langdon recently Co-PI of a number of EPSRC and industry funded projects, all concerned with user-centred design for new human–machine interfaces, in the application areas of automotive, aerospace, and wireless communications in emergencies. He is currently Professor of Engineering Design, Transportation, and Inclusion at Edinburgh Napier University and head of the Transport Research Institute in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment.

Jonathan Lazar, PhD, LLM is a professor in the College of Information Studies (iSchool) at the University of Maryland. Previously, for 19 years he was a professor of computer and information sciences at Towson University, where he served as director of the information systems program for 14 years. Dr. Lazar has previously authored, co-authored, or edited 12 books, including Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction (2nd edition), Ensuring Digital Accessibility Through Process and Policy, and Disability, H
Includes the proceedings of CWUAAT '20 Presents the latest research into usability, accessibility, and universal design Utilises an interdisciplinary approach to the problem of designing for inclusion