Lecture 1 Flashcards
What are 3 simple categorisations of impairments and disabilities?
- Sensory impairments
- Physical impairments
- Cognitive impairments
What are 3 categorisations of physical impairments?
- Lack of function (absence of a limb or paralysis)
- Lack of mobility (lack of strength, speed, range)
- Lack of muscle coordination (Tremor/uncontrolled movements/lack of accuracy)
What are 3 different types of visual impairments?
- Acuity (e.g. blindness)
- Visual field (e.g. glaucoma)
- Colour vision (e.g. red-green colour blindness)
What are 5 categorisations of cognitive impairments?
- Intelligence
- Attention and Concentration (ADHD)
- Speech and Language
- Learning (autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia)
- Memory (dementia, STM loss)
- Hand-eye coordination
- Problem solving and reasoning
What are 3 categories used to identify the type of persistence of impairments?
- Transient
- Temporary
- Permanent
What are the two different models of disability?
Medical model: “A problem that needs to be fixed”.
Social model: “It’s society which disables physically impaired people”.
Name 2 laws made to protect and force companies to consider people with disabilities?
- Equality Act 2010
- Public Sector Bodies (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018
What are 5 motivations for designing for people with disabilities?
- Legal requirements
- Demographic argument
- Economic
- Usability better for everyone
- Moral
What is Empathic Modelling?
- It is when you put yourself in position of impaired user using props that mimic some impairments.
- Play through scenarios that mimic common tasks.
- Related to experience prototyping.
What are 3 benefits and 3 limitations of Empathic Modelling?
Benefits
- Can be used in. quick and dirty evaluation
- Creates empathy
- Focuses on feelings and experience of users.
Limitations
- Limit to what impairments can be successfully mimicked
- Adaptions and workarounds difficult to replicate.
- Can take props off but what is the everyday experience?
