TY - GEN
T1 - Weaving by Touch
T2 - 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020
AU - Das, Maitraye
AU - Borgos-Rodriguez, Katya
AU - Piper, Anne Marie
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by NSF grant IIS-1901456. We thank Blake Epperson, Don Anderson, Elizabeth Bolanos, Anita Phifer, Kim Sands, Joseph Lamperis, Maria Franco, Margarita Marrero, Antonella Russo, Morgan Cole, Ashley Block, Carlos Hranicka, Wally Tomasiewicz, Julia Blake, Carolyn Marcantonio, Judith Querciagrossa, and our community partners for their contributions to this research. We also thank Amanda Lazar, Emily Wang, Bob Hariman, and our reviewers for their feedback on earlier drafts.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/4/21
Y1 - 2020/4/21
N2 - The rise of maker communities and fabrication tools creates new opportunities for participation in design work. With this has come an interest in increasing the accessibility of making for people with disabilities, which has mainly emphasized independence and empowerment through the creation of more accessible fabrication tools. To understand and rethink the notion of accessible making, we analyze the context and practices of a particular site of making: The communal weaving studio within an assisted living facility for people with vision impairments. Our analysis helps reconsider the material and social processes that constitute accessible making, including the ways makers attend to interactive material properties, negotiate co-creative embodied work, and value the labor of making. We discuss future directions for design and research on accessible making while highlighting tensions around assistance, collaboration, and how disabled labor is valued.
AB - The rise of maker communities and fabrication tools creates new opportunities for participation in design work. With this has come an interest in increasing the accessibility of making for people with disabilities, which has mainly emphasized independence and empowerment through the creation of more accessible fabrication tools. To understand and rethink the notion of accessible making, we analyze the context and practices of a particular site of making: The communal weaving studio within an assisted living facility for people with vision impairments. Our analysis helps reconsider the material and social processes that constitute accessible making, including the ways makers attend to interactive material properties, negotiate co-creative embodied work, and value the labor of making. We discuss future directions for design and research on accessible making while highlighting tensions around assistance, collaboration, and how disabled labor is valued.
KW - design
KW - disability
KW - making
KW - materiality
KW - vision impairments
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U2 - 10.1145/3313831.3376477
DO - 10.1145/3313831.3376477
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85091283408
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 25 April 2020 through 30 April 2020
ER -