Designing Inclusive Futures

""Designing Inclusive Futures"" reflects the need to explore, in a coherent way, the issues and practicalities that lie behind design that is intended to extend our active future lives. This encompasses design for inclusion in daily life at home but also extends to the workplace and for products within these contexts. For example, given trends in employment sector growth, skills requirements, labour supply and demographic change, there is a need to predict the critical areas where individual capabilities are mismatched with the physical, social and organisational demands of work. This mismatch, which can be addressed within the domain of inclusive design, is pervasively linked to real artefacts in workspaces and their intersection with the health factors that relate to ageing. This book is the result of the fourth CWUAAT workshop held in Cambridge, England in April 2008.

List of contents

Understanding Users.- Converting Disability Data into a Format Suitable for Estimating Design Exclusion.- Using Constraints in the Understanding of the Interactions Between Products and Humans.- User Involvement and User Data: A Framework to Help Designers to Select Appropriate Methods.- Engaging the Ageing: Designing Artefacts to Provoke Dialogue.- Biomechanical Analysis of Opening Glass Jars: Using Kinematics.- Building a Consumer Network to Engage Users with Disabilities.- Inclusive Design.- Help or Hindrance: The Use of Tools for Opening Packaging.- The Sound of Inclusion: A Case Study on Acoustic Comfort for All.- Designing an Inclusive Pill Dispenser.- Prior Experience of Domestic Microwave Cooker Interfaces: A User Study.- Prior Experience and Intuitive Use: Image Schemas in User Centred Design.- Sustaining Autonomous Living for Older People Through Inclusive Strategies for Home Appliance Design.- Computer Access and New Technologies.- Investigating the Security-related Challenges of Blind Users on the Web.- Access Barriers to Wireless Technologies for People with Disabilities: Issues, Opportunities and Policy Options.- Gaze Interaction with Virtual On-line Communities.- The Resolution Race: Perpetuating Inaccessible Computing.- Assistive Technology.- A Case Study of Simulating HCI for Special Needs.- User-led Design of Technology to Improve Quality of Life for People with Dementia.- Photonote: The Making of a Classroom Adaptation System.- FES Indoor Rowing and On-water Sculling.- Universal Access to Shopping: Apparel Acquisition Preferences for the Working Woman with Physical Disabilities.- Inclusive Environments.- Is Remodelled Extra Care Housing in England an Inclusive and 'Care-neutral' Solution?.- Designing for an Ageing Population: ResidentialPreferences of the Turkish Older People to Age in Place.- Universal Design Patterns and Their Use in Designing Inclusive Environments.- User Friendly Living Environmental Research and Design for Older People.

About the author

Dr Patrick M. Langdon is Senior Researcher in the Cambridge University Engineering Department Engineering Design Centre, Lead Researcher in Inclusive Design and Consortium Manager of the Inclusive Design 3 project. His Cognitive Science PhD examined the psychological reality of certain artificial intelligence based theories of computer vision. In collaboration with Professor P.J. Clarkson; Director of the EDC, Professor P. Robinson, of the Computer Lab and Professor S. Godsill, of the Signal Processing Group, he has recently investigated the effect of haptic force feedback on motion-impairments. His research concerns cognitive models of interaction in inclusive design, and the use of haptic feedback to assist motion control. He has pursued a number of research directions in the last 10 years. These include: (1) the properties and design of haptic interfaces for use in computer displays for the movement disabled; (2) the representation and formulation of statistical data on disability, for use in inclusive design; (3) integration of software development and empirical methodology for good design research practice; (4) structure of data for capability assessment; (5) comparative studies of clustering methods for design knowledge exploration; (6) cognitive scales for capability assessment; (7) methods for ethnographic and observational studies of aerospace; and (8) developing scales for product-capability interaction assessment in design. He is editor of a number of books in the fields of inclusive design, universal accessibility and assistive technology and has been involved in the organisation of many international workshops in engineering design; has recently published journal and conference papers in ergonomics, HCI and engineering design and given seminars at the IMechE. He is currently working in the areas of modelling learning, movement and cognition for inclusive design and computer assistance for motion impaired interface use. He is External Examiner for the Kings College London and Guy s Hospital Intercollegiate MSc in Assistive Technology.

Summary

“Designing Inclusive Futures” reflects the need to explore, in a coherent way, the issues and practicalities that lie behind design that is intended to extend our active future lives. This encompasses design for inclusion in daily life at home but also extends to the workplace and for products within these contexts. For example, given trends in employment sector growth, skills requirements, labour supply and demographic change, there is a need to predict the critical areas where individual capabilities are mismatched with the physical, social and organisational demands of work. This mismatch, which can be addressed within the domain of inclusive design, is pervasively linked to real artefacts in workspaces and their intersection with the health factors that relate to ageing. This book is the result of the fourth CWUAAT workshop held in Cambridge, England in April 2008.

Product details

• Assisted by: John Clarkson (Editor), P. John Clarkson (Editor), John Clarkson (Editor), P John Clarkson (Editor), P. Langdon (Editor), Patrick Langdon (Editor), Patrick M. Langdon (Editor), P Robinson (Editor), P. Robinson (Editor), Peter Robinson (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9781848002104
• ISBN: 978-1-84800-210-4
• No. of pages: 274
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 19 mm x 241 mm
• Illustrations: XIV, 274 p. 91 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering