Elevating strengths and capacities: the different shades of assets-based design in HCI
Elevating strengths and capacities: the different shades of assets-based design in HCI
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提升优势和能力:HCI 中基于资产的设计的不同层次
DOI:
10.1145/3549068
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发表时间:
2022
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Hernandez, J. Maya
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Wong-Villacres, Marisol;Erete, Sheena;Gautam, Aakash;Ismail, Azra;Kumar, Neha;Pei, Lucy;Roldan, Wendy;Ahumada-Newhart, Veronica;Badillo-Urquiola, Karla;Hernandez, J. Maya
DIALOGUES STANDPOINT with the goals of assets-based design, a significant majority of research on disability justice within HCI and related fields has focused on independence/dependence narratives, leading to designed solutions that do not support agency. At times these solutions have been outright oppressive. Assets-based design could enable a shift toward interdependent relationships, centering the wholeness of an individual rather than fixing gaps in personhood. Two issues stand out as raising important, open questions for disability justice in HCI: 1) challenges in assets when hegemonic biases and power differentials exist, and 2) the use of existing methodologies and theories prevalent in disability justice studies together with assets-based design. Designers’ biases are a key aspect defining their roles and practices in assets-based design endeavors. Bias is defined as a tendency in design to prioritize decisions in the design process that reflect partial views [3]. Bias is often misunderstood and ignored, but it is crucial to adopt strategies to prevent it, to the extent possible. In addition to trying to prevent bias, it is equally important to recognize its potential sources and acknowledge the impossibility of generating bias-free knowledge. All knowledge is situated, as feminist science studies scholars have pointed out, but, as designers, it becomes critical to evaluate our biases, perspectives, and motivations when designing and identifying assets in the context of disability justice. Work on disability justice needs more methodological pathways for determining assets in ways that circumvent hegemonic bias. Questions that might help illuminate these pathways are Who are the real disability experts (eg, people with disabilities, caregivers, clinicians)? and How can they truly support a discussion on assets?Another salient theme for assets-based design and disability justice is how we go about using different methodologies and theoretical approaches that are prevalent in disability justice work in support of assetsbased goals. A key problem is that the nuanced differences between the concepts these approaches propose and what assets-based design might entail remain unclear. For instance, while codesign aims to bring together end users to propose a system and shape the design informing