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‘INDRIYA’ – PARTICIPATORY DESIGN OF A MULTI-SENSORY LEARNING AID FOR CHILDREN WITH COMMUNICATION DISORDER

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

Kavyashree Venkatesh  and
Shakuntala Acharya
Kavyashree Venkatesh
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Shakuntala Acharya*
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
*
Acharya, Shakuntala, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India, shakuntala.a@iitg.ac.in

Abstract

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Designing for disability is a very specialised area as it requires interdisciplinary expertise, and designing assistive devices for children with communication disorder, is especially a challenge as these users are incapable of providing adequate and coherent feedback. With the adoption of participatory design approach, in collaboration with experts/professionals/educators, as pivotal stakeholders and a proxy for the end-users; a game-based, multi-sensory learning aid has been developed to train children on the concept of sense organs. Several concepts were generated and evaluated through special educator participation and based on a preliminary survey of external special educators as evaluators, the prototype was found to be suitable for the target user to enhance their communication skills. This paper captures a research through design perspective on the design of customisable solutions for beneficiary user groups, who are unable to offer feedback.

Keywords

Participatory designCollaborative designDesign for X (DfX)User centred designDesign for Children with disability
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 3: ICED23 , July 2023 , pp. 9 - 18
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