Interactive Sensory Objects Developed for and by People with Learning Disabilities

Abstract

This paper describes a project that aims to help improve the accessibility of museums and heritage sites by creating a series of interactive, multisensory objects. The objects will be developed collaboratively by artists, technologists, people with an interest in heritage sites, and people with disabilities and their carers in a series of sensory art and electronics workshops. The workshops and the sensory objects will explore aspects of physicality and how to appeal to the entire range of senses for both control and feedback. In addition to creating new interactive objects, the project aims to learn more about how to engage people with disabilities as participant researchers in designing art objects, and how to make heritage sites more accessible generally.

Affiliations

University of Reading

Reading, RG6 6AY

[phone]

University of East London

London, E16 2RD

[phone]

Co-ordinator Access to Heritage

project Liverpool Mencap

Contributors

Nic Hollinworth

Faustina Hwang

Kate Allen

Andy Minnion

Gosia Kwiatkowska

Nick Weldin

Ticky Lowe

Conference

Publication date: September 2012

Publication date (Print): September 2012

Pages: 1-3

ID: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2012.91

Copyright statement: © Nic Hollinworth et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Birmingham, UK

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Conference name: The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 26

Conference location: Birmingham, UK

Conference date: 12 - 14 September 2012

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction

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Product Information: 1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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Categories

Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing