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”Beyond 3D printers”: understanding long-term digital fabrication practices for the education of visually impaired or blind youth

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posted on 2023-06-09, 23:10 authored by Emeline BruleEmeline Brule, Gilles Bailly
Disability professionals could use digital fabrication tools to provide customised assistive technologies or accessible media beneficial to the education of Blind or visually impaired youth. However, there is little documentation of long-term practices with these tools by professionals in this field, limiting our ability to support their work. We report on such practices in a French organisation, providing disability educational services and using digital fabrication since 2013, for six years. We trace how professionals defined how digital fabrication could and should be used through a range of projects, based on pedagogical uses and the constraints in creation, production and maintenance. We outline new research perspectives going beyond 3D printers and its promises of automation to embrace hybrid approaches currently supported by laser cutters, the learning and documentation process, and the production of accessible tactile media at a regional or national scale.

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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

CHI Proceedings

Publisher

ACM

Page range

1-15

Article number

a44

Event name

CHI 2021

Event location

Japan / Online

Event type

conference

Event date

May 8-13, 2021

Place of publication

New York, NY, United States

ISBN

9781450380966

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  • Engineering and Design Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Creative Technology Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2021-02-26

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2021-05-14

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2021-02-26

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