Exploring aesthetic enhancement of wearable technologies for deaf women

Danielle Wilde, Patrizia Marti

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    Abstract

    The Quietude project uses making, participation and co-design to collectively imagine a more sustainable, aesthetically enriched future for deaf women, by developing wearables that respond to the women's needs and desires: those that are well known, and those that may be only dimly glimpsed. We present our motivation and process, and describe our first workshop that brought together deaf women, ethicists, makers, designers and technology experts. The workshop led to the design and development of an ecology of jewellery products: fashionable accessories that enhance the experience of deaf women by translating sounds into vibration, light patterns and shape change. We reflect on the opportunities and challenges of developing aesthetically rich wearables for deaf women, using experimental participatory design methods, and the value of considering disability as an opportunity for wearables design, rather than as an issue that needs to be addressed or solved.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
    Publication date8. Jun 2018
    Pages201-213
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-5198-0
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 8. Jun 2018
    Event2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2018 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    Duration: 9. Jun 201813. Jun 2018

    Conference

    Conference2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2018
    Country/TerritoryHong Kong
    CityHong Kong
    Period09/06/201813/06/2018
    SponsorACM SIGCHI

    Keywords

    • Co-design
    • Disability aesthetics
    • Material cultures
    • Research through design
    • Wearables

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