Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
37 results found tagged DIY assistive technology.
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Improving the Academic Inclusion of a Student with Special Needs at University Bordeaux
This experience report describes a collaborative effort between accessibility researchers, student support services (PHASE), and a motor and speech-disabled student (YN) at the University of Bordeaux to improve his academic participation. YN, over 60…
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Making "Making" Accessible
This keynote abstract presents Amy Hurst's research program on making DIY (Do-It-Yourself) assistive technology creation accessible to end-users, clinicians, and caregivers. The talk addresses a fundamental problem: a large percentage of assistive te…
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Making Nonvisually: Lessons from the Field
This experience report shares lessons from a team of researchers, activists, and blind makers who conducted workshops introducing Arduino electronics to blind hobbyists and guided assembly of an accessible voltmeter prototype. The authors — including…
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Designing a Low-cost Finger Wearable Audio-tactile Device
This student research abstract describes the iterative design of ColorTact, a finger-worn wearable device that provides audio annotations when users explore tactile diagrams. The device addresses a fundamental limitation of conventional tactile graph…
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Bespoke Reflections: Creating a One-Handed Braille Keyboard
This paper documents an 18-month co-design process to build a one-handed braille keyboard for Ross, a blind person who lost the use of his right arm following a stroke at age five. Most assistive technologies are designed for single impairment groups…
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Teaching Digital Fabrication to Early Intervention Specialists for Designing Their Own Tools
This demonstration paper describes a co-design project in which researchers from New Design University and TU Wien taught basic digital fabrication skills to four experienced early intervention therapists who work with children with cerebral visual i…
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Low-Cost Tactile Coloring Page Fabrication on a Cutting Machine: Assembly and user experiences of cardstock-layered tangible pictures
This short paper presents a design inquiry into using a consumer-grade Cricut cutting machine to create tactile pictures and coloring pages by layering cardstock, as a low-cost alternative to traditional tactile image production methods. The techniqu…
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Creating 3D Printed Assistive Technology Through Design Shortcuts: Leveraging Digital Fabrication Services to Incorporate 3D Printing into the Physical Therapy Classroom
This paper investigates how to integrate 3D printing into physical therapy (PT) education without requiring PT students to become experts in CAD or digital fabrication. Previous research showed that while 3D printing has great potential for creating …
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Towards a Social Justice Aligned Makerspace: Co-designing Custom Assistive Technology within a University Ecosystem
This paper explores how university makerspaces can serve as sites for co-designing custom Do-It-Yourself assistive technology (DIY-AT) while simultaneously engaging with social justice issues faced by students with disabilities. Conducted at the Univ…
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Barriers and Benefits: The Path to Accessible Makerspaces
This paper investigates the intersection of makerspace culture and the disability community, exploring how makerspaces can better support the development of assistive technologies by and for disabled makers. The researchers conducted eleven semi-stru…