Designing Inclusive Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Designing for the Real-World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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3. Designing for the Real-world

   1. Hospital Reality from a Lying Perspective:Exploring a Sensory Research Approach

      • M. Annemans, C. Van Audenhove, H. Vermolen, A. Heylighen

      Pages 3-12

   2. Inclusive Bus Travel: A Psychosocial Approach

      • F. Nickpour, P. W. Jordan, H. Dong

      Pages 13-22

   3. Safe and Inclusive Design of Equipment Used in the Minerals Industry

      • T. Horberry, T. Cooke

      Pages 23-32

   4. Deploying a Two-Player System for Arm Rehabilitation in Schools

      • R. J. Holt, A. P. H. Weightman, J. F. Gallagher, N. Preston, M. C. Levesley, M. Mon-Williams et al.

      Pages 33-41

   5. Evaluating the Accessibility and Usability of Blogging Platforms for Blind Users

      • B. Wentz, M. Cirba, N. Kharal, J. Moran, M. Slate

      Pages 43-52

4. Measuring Demand and Capabilities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. A Population Perspective on Mobile Phone Related Tasks

      • M. Bradley, S. Waller, J. Goodman-Deane, I. Hosking, R. Tenneti, P. M. Langdon et al.

      Pages 55-64

   3. How to Use Virtual and Augmented Reality Techniques to Design Highly Usable Human–Machine Interfaces

      • S. Ceccacci, M. Germani, M. Mengoni

      Pages 65-74

   4. Development and Evaluation of Sonified Weather Maps for Blind Users

      • R. Weir, B. Sizemore, H. Henderson, S. Chakraborty, J. Lazar

      Pages 75-84

   5. Achieving Inclusion in Public Spaces: A Shopping Mall Case Study

      • Y. Afacan

      Pages 85-92

   6. Visibility Prediction Software: Five Factors of Contrast Perception for People with Vision Impairment in the Real World

      • H. Dalke, A. Corso, G. Conduit, A. Riaz

      Pages 93-102

5. Designing Cognitive Interaction with Emerging Technologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Intrinsic Motivation and Design of ICT for the Ageing Population

      • T. S. Goldhaber, P. M. Langdon, P. J. Clarkson

      Pages 105-114

   3. A Framework for Studying Cognitive Impairment to Inform Inclusive Design

      • E. Jokisuu, P. M. Langdon, P. J. Clarkson

      Pages 115-124

   4. Interactive Error Correction Using Statistical Language Models in a Client–Server Interface for Editing Mathematical Text

      • D. Attanayake, G. Hunter, E. Pfluegel, J. Denholm-Price

      Pages 125-132

   5. Understandable by Design: How Can Products be Designed to Align with User Experience?

      • A. Mieczakowski, P. M. Langdon, R. H. Bracewell, J. J. Patmore, P. J. Clarkson

      Pages 133-142

6. Design for Inclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Design Advisor: How to Supply Designers with Knowledge about Inclusion?

      • E. Zitkus, P. M. Langdon, P. J. Clarkson

      Pages 145-154

The Cambridge Workshops on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) are a series of workshops held at a Cambridge University College every two years. The workshop theme: “Designing inclusion for real-world applications” refers to the emerging potential and relevance of the latest generations of inclusive design thinking, tools, techniques, and data, to mainstream project applications such as healthcare and the design of working environments. Inclusive Design Research involves developing tools and guidance enabling product designers to design for the widest possible population, for a given range of capabilities.

There are five main themes:

Designing for the Real-World

Measuring Demand And Capabilities

Designing Cognitive Interaction with Emerging Technologies

Design for Inclusion

Designing Inclusive Architecture

In the tradition of CWUAAT, we have solicited and accepted contributions over a wide range of topics, both within individual themes and also across the workshop’s scope. We ultimately hope to generate more inter-disciplinary dialogues based on focused usage cases that  can provide the discipline necessary to drive further novel research, leading to better designs. The aim is to impact industry and end-users as well governance and public design, thereby effectively reducing exclusion and difficulty in peoples’ daily lives and society.

• Assistive Technology
• Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Inclusive Design
• Rehabilitation Engineering
• Universal Access

• , Cambridge Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Patrick Langdon, John Clarkson

• , Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Peter Robinson

• , Department of Computer and Information, Towson University, Towson, USA

  Jonathan Lazar

• , Dept. of Architecture, Urbanism & Planni, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium

  Ann Heylighen

Dr Patrick 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 theKings College London and Guy’s Hospital Intercollegiate MSc in Assistive Technology.

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