TapeBlocks: a making toolkit for people living with intellectual disabilities

Kirsten Ellis; Emily Dao; Osian Smith; Stephen Lindsay; Patrick Olivier

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445647

TapeBlocks: a making toolkit for people living with intellectual disabilities

Kirsten Ellis
, Emily Dao
, Osian Smith
, Stephen Lindsay
, Patrick Olivier

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

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Abstract

The accessibility and afordability of tangible electronic toolkits are signifcant barriers to their uptake by people with disabilities. We present the design and evaluation of TapeBlocks, a low-cost, low-fdelity toolkit intended to be accessible for people with intellectual disabilities while promoting creativity and engagement. We evaluated TapeBlocks by interviewing makers, special educational needs teachers and support coaches. Analysis of these interviews informed the design of a series of maker workshops using TapeBlocks with young adults living with intellectual disabilities, led by support coaches with support from the research team. Participants were able to engage with TapeBlocks and making, eventually building their own TapeBlocks to make personal creations. Our evaluation reveals how TapeBlocks supports accessible making and playful discovery of electronics for people living with disabilities, and addresses a gap in existing toolkits by being tinkerable, afordable and having a low threshold for engagement.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI'21 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Pernille Bjørn, Steven Drucker
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450380966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445647
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021: Making Waves, Combining Strengths - Online, Yokohama, Japan Duration: 8 May 2021 → 13 May 2021 Conference number: 39th https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3411763 (Proceedings) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3411764 (Proceedings)

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Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021
Abbreviated title	CHI 2021
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	8/05/21 → 13/05/21
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3411763 (Proceedings) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3411764 (Proceedings)

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Accessibility
Intellectual disability
Making
Tangibles

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Ellis, K, Dao, E, Smith, O, Lindsay, S & Olivier, P 2021, TapeBlocks: a making toolkit for people living with intellectual disabilities. in P Bjørn & S Drucker (eds), CHI'21 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 280, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021, Yokohama, Japan, 8/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445647

TapeBlocks: a making toolkit for people living with intellectual disabilities. / Ellis, Kirsten; Dao, Emily; Smith, Osian et al.
CHI'21 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Pernille Bjørn; Steven Drucker. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. 280.

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