Inclusive Cross-sensory Social Play: Towards a new paradigm of assistive technology for early development of blind and visually impaired children

包容性跨感官社交游戏：为盲人和视障儿童的早期发展提供辅助技术的新范式

• 批准号: EP/Y023676/1
• 负责人: Oussama Metatla
• 金额: $ 213.12万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY023676%2F1
• 关键词: Inclusive; Cross; sensory; Social; Play

Assistive technologies (ATs) help disabled individuals to perform functions that might be otherwise difficult or impossible. However, their design has been largely grounded in a medical view of disability, focusing on addressing the functional limitations imposed by medical conditions at the expense of accounting for the situated and social nature of meaning making between a disabled person and their environment. This has had inadvertent negative impact on the inclusion of disabled people in society, particularly for disabled children. This proposal is for interdisciplinary research that will radically change the way we design, engineer and evaluate assistive technologies for blind and visually impaired (BVI) children. It aims to move beyond a medical view of visual impairment by integrating notions of embodied and perceptual experience with social engagement and joint meaning making with peers. The aim is to carve new directions in technological research for inclusion by focusing on how interactions between disabled and non-disabled children can be facilitated with and through inclusive cross-sensory assistive technologies. I am proposing to investigate shared cross-sensory cognition between BVI and sighted children to ground an alternative framework for designing technologies that support more inclusive cross-sensory social play experiences. To do this, I will address key challenges in engineering novel cross-sensory shape-changing assistive technologies, understand cross-sensory cognition in BVI and sighted children, co-design conceptual models of cross-sensory social play experiences with stakeholders, and evaluate the effectiveness of a novel inclusive technological intervention for early child development in-situ. In doing so, I will establish the engineering, scientific and design foundations for a new paradigm for inclusive assistive technologies, which will revolutionise assistive technology research, and transform policy and practice around early child development and equity for disabled individuals in society.

辅助技术（ATS）帮助残疾人执行可能困难或不可能的功能。但是，他们的设计主要基于残疾的医学观点，重点是解决医疗状况所施加的功能限制，而牺牲了在残疾人与环境之间的含义的位置和社会性质。这对社会中的残疾人，特别是对残疾儿童的纳入了无意的负面影响。该建议是针对跨学科研究的，它将从根本上改变我们设计，工程和评估盲目和视力障碍（BVI）儿童的辅助技术的方式。它的目的是通过将体现和感知经验的概念与社会参与和与同龄人的共同意义相结合，超越视觉障碍的医学视野。目的是通过关注残疾儿童和非残疾儿童之间的相互作用如何通过以及包容性的跨感官辅助技术来促进技术研究中的新方向进行包容。我建议调查BVI和视力儿童之间共享的跨感官认知，以扎根设计技术的替代框架，以支持更具包容性的跨感官社交游戏体验。为此，我将解决工程新颖的跨感官变形辅助技术的关键挑战，了解BVI和视力儿童的跨感官认知，共同设计与利益相关者的跨性感社会游戏体验的概念模型，并评估早期儿童开发的新型技术干预效果。通过这样做，我将为包容性辅助技术的新范式建立工程，科学和设计基础，该技术将彻底改变辅助技术研究，并围绕社会中残疾人的早期儿童发展和公平性改变政策和实践。