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 (AT) 帮助残疾人执行原本可能困难或不可能的功能。然而，他们的设计很大程度上基于对残疾的医学观点，专注于解决医疗条件带来的功能限制，而牺牲了残疾人与其环境之间意义建构的情境和社会性质。这无意中对残疾人融入社会产生了负面影响，特别是残疾儿童。该提案针对跨学科研究，将从根本上改变我们为盲人和视障儿童设计、设计和评估辅助技术的方式。它的目的是通过将具体体验和感知体验的概念与社会参与和与同龄人共同创造意义相结合，超越视觉障碍的医学观点。其目的是通过关注如何利用包容性跨感官辅助技术促进残疾儿童和非残疾儿童之间的互动，从而为包容性技术研究开辟新的方向。我提议调查英属维尔京群岛和视力正常的儿童之间共享的跨感官认知，为设计支持更具包容性的跨感官社交游戏体验的技术奠定一个替代框架。为此，我将解决设计新型跨感官变形辅助技术的关键挑战，了解英属维尔京群岛和视力正常儿童的跨感官认知，与利益相关者共同设计跨感官社交游戏体验的概念模型，并评估一种新颖的包容性技术干预对儿童早期发展的有效性。在此过程中，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，这将彻底改变辅助技术研究，并改变围绕儿童早期发展和社会残疾人公平的政策和实践。