Doctoral Dissertation Research: Developing Design for Social Acceptance: A new methodology incorporating social acceptability in the design of assistive devices

辅助技术可能会对残疾人的社交互动产生负面影响。因此，可能会发生设备废弃。 这一问题可以通过利用关于技术的社会影响和发展的社会科学研究来解决。 使用多方法的社会科学方法，本研究（1）调查的人，技术和上下文的交集，以了解辅助技术如何使用户感到自我意识;（2）确定哪些设计元素可能被认为是社会可接受的;和（3）开发一种新的方法，社会接受的设计，创造体现社会可接受性的辅助技术。为此，研究人员使用访谈，观察和参与式设计与残疾人使用辅助技术，重点是设计如何影响社会互动。示范性设计讲习班可以提供与残疾人密切合作的机会，以开发可用于创造社会可接受的辅助技术的设计实践。这项研究的结果有助于科学，技术和社会领域的耻辱和技术之间的关系，以及如何克服这个问题提供了一个系统的理解。该研究还有助于了解残疾人的交集，他们使用的技术以及他们参与的社会互动。这项研究的更广泛的影响是（1）提高残疾人参与技术设计，工程和测试的能力;（2）更好地认识到如何设计辅助设备以满足残疾人用户的社会需求;（3）建立一种新的辅助技术设计方法，可用于现有的设计和工程过程。研究结果通过博士论文传播。该研究的课程组成部分-设计学生将使用该方法进行项目-可以塑造学生的设计敏感性并影响他们未来的设计工作。最后，该研究项目扩大了残疾人在工程过程中的参与。

Assistive technologies can negatively impact social interactions for people with disabilities. As a result, device abandoment can occur. This problem may be remedied by drawing on social science studies of the social impacts and development of technologies. Using a multi-method social scientific approach, this research (1) investigates the intersection of people, technology, and context to understand how assistive technologies may make users feel self-conscious; (2) determines what elements of design may be deemed socially acceptable; and (3) develops a new approach, Design for Social Acceptance, for creating assistive technologies that embody social acceptability. To do so, the investigators use interviews, observations, and participatory design with people with disabilities using assistive technologies, focusing on how design affects social interactions. Participatory design workshops may provide opportunities to work closely with people with disabilities to develop design practices that can be used to create socially acceptable assistive technologies. Findings from this study contribute to the field of science, technology, and society by providing a systematic understanding of the relationship between stigma and technology, and how that problem can be overcome. The study also contributes to understandings of the intersection of people with disabilities, the technologies they use, and the social interactions in which they engage. The broader impacts of this research are (1) an increased ability for people with disabilities to participate in technology design, engineering, and testing; (2) a greater awareness of how assistive devices can be designed to meet the social needs of users with disabilities; and (3) establishing a new assistive technology design approach that may be adopted into existing design and engineering processes. Findings are disseminated through a doctoral dissertation. The course component of the study--where design students will work on projects by using the methodology--can shape student design sensibilities and influence their future design work. Finally, the research project broadens the participation of people with disabilities in engineering processes.