Smooth sailing? Autoethnography of recreational travel by a blind person

Kate Stephens; Matthew Butler; Leona M. Holloway; Cagatay Goncu; Kim Marriott

doi:10.1145/3373625.3417011

Smooth sailing? Autoethnography of recreational travel by a blind person

Kate Stephens, Matthew Butler, Leona M. Holloway, Cagatay Goncu, Kim Marriott

Department of Human Centred Computing

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Abstract

We present an autoethnographic study of an independent blind traveller, Kate. It recounts her preparation for a 28-day cruise and then her experience onboard the ship. Her planning notes, field notes and travel diary were analysed in terms of five main themes: information access, orientation and mobility, tools and technology, cultural and societal issues, and person-centred issues. This analysis provides a deeply personal account of the barriers-in particular information access, orientation and mobility and staff attitudes-that she faced, as well as the skills and tools that she used to overcome these. A particular focus is Kate's use of technologies to access visual information and the provision of accessible maps and models before the trip to help her build a cognitive map of the ship's layout.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ASSETS'20 - The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Editors	Hugo Nicolau, Karyn Moffatt
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450371032
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3417011
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	ACM SIGACCESS International Conference on Computers and Accessibility 2020 - Virtual, Greece Duration: 26 Oct 2020 → 28 Oct 2020 Conference number: 22nd https://assets20.sigaccess.org/#:~:text=The%2022nd%20International%20ACM%20SIGACCESS,a%20fully%20online%20format%20instead. (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3373625 (Proceedings)

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Conference	ACM SIGACCESS International Conference on Computers and Accessibility 2020
Abbreviated title	ASSETS 2020
Country/Territory	Greece
Period	26/10/20 → 28/10/20
Internet address	https://assets20.sigaccess.org/#:~:text=The%2022nd%20International%20ACM%20SIGACCESS,a%20fully%20online%20format%20instead. (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3373625 (Proceedings)

Keywords

assistive technology
Autoethnography
blind
disability
mobility
orientation
travel

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Stephens, K., Butler, M., Holloway, L. M., Goncu, C., & Marriott, K. (2020). Smooth sailing? Autoethnography of recreational travel by a blind person. In H. Nicolau, & K. Moffatt (Eds.), ASSETS'20 - The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility Article 26 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3417011

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Stephens, K, Butler, M, Holloway, LM, Goncu, C & Marriott, K 2020, Smooth sailing? Autoethnography of recreational travel by a blind person. in H Nicolau & K Moffatt (eds), ASSETS'20 - The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility., 26, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, ACM SIGACCESS International Conference on Computers and Accessibility 2020, Greece, 26/10/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3417011

Smooth sailing? Autoethnography of recreational travel by a blind person. / Stephens, Kate; Butler, Matthew; Holloway, Leona M. et al.
ASSETS'20 - The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. ed. / Hugo Nicolau; Karyn Moffatt. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. 26.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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