What is it about?
Disabled artists integrate their assistive devices in their creative practices in a way that leverages their unique strenghts rather than trying to overcome their difficulties. What can assistive technology research learn from this new approach?
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Why is it important?
Traditionally assistive and accessible technologies are largely seen as tools that can be used to "bridge a gap" but this promotes a negative view of disability. Disabled people develop an impressive ammount of skills as a result of their life experiences. Shifting our focus towards better leveraging these unique skills could help create novel and more empowering technologies.
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Art helps us to capture the uniqueness of individuals, focusing on what only they can do, rather than pushing ableist ideas of a minimum threshold of capabilities. Better engagement between disabled artistis and assistive technology researchers could help to unearth novel groundbraking design directions
Giulia Barbareschi
Keio Gijuku Daigaku
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This page is a summary of: Assistive or Artistic Technologies? Exploring the Connections between Art, Disability and Wheelchair Use, October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3517428.3544799.
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