Disability design and innovation in computing research in low resource settings

Morgado Ramirez, D; Barbareschi, G; Donovan-Hall, MK; Sobuh, M; Elayyan, N; Nakandi, BT; Ssekitoleko, RT; Olenja, J; Magomere, GN; Daymond, S; Honeywill, J; Harris, I; Mbugua, N; Kenney, LPJ; Holloway, C

doi:10.1145/3373625.3417301

Disability design and innovation in computing research in low resource settings

Morgado Ramirez, D; Barbareschi, G; Donovan-Hall, MK; Sobuh, M; Elayyan, N; Nakandi, BT; Ssekitoleko, RT; Olenja, J; Magomere, GN; Daymond, S; Honeywill, J; Harris, I; Mbugua, N; Kenney, LPJ; Holloway, C

Authors

D Morgado Ramirez

G Barbareschi

MK Donovan-Hall

M Sobuh

N Elayyan

BT Nakandi

RT Ssekitoleko

J Olenja

GN Magomere

S Daymond

J Honeywill

I Harris

N Mbugua

Prof Laurence Kenney L.P.J.Kenney@salford.ac.uk
Professor

C Holloway

Contributors

T Guerreiro
Editor

H Nicolau
Editor

K Moffatt
Editor

Abstract

80% of people with disabilities worldwide live in low resourced settings, rural areas, informal settlements and in multidimensional poverty. ICT4D leverages technological innovations to deliver programs for international development. But very few do so with a focus on and involving people with disabilities in low resource settings. Also, most studies largely focus on publishing the results of the research with a focus on the positive stories and not the learnings and recommendations regarding research processes. In short, researchers rarely examine what was challenging in the process of collaboration. We present reflections from the field across four studies. Our contributions are: (1) an overview of past work in computing with a focus on disability in low resource settings and (2) learnings and recommendations from four collaborative projects in Uganda, Jordan and Kenya over the last two years, that are relevant for future HCI studies in low resource settings with communities with disabilities. We do this through a lens of Disability Interaction and ICT4D.

Presentation Conference Type	Other
Conference Name	ASSETS '20: The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
End Date	Oct 28, 2020
Acceptance Date	Aug 18, 2020
Publication Date	Oct 28, 2020
Deposit Date	Nov 2, 2020
Publicly Available Date	Nov 2, 2020
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Book Title	ASSETS '20: The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
ISBN	9781450371032
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3417301
Publisher URL	https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3417301
Related Public URLs	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3373625
Additional Information	Event Type : Conference Grant Number: EP/R013985/1