Inclusive Design for Immersive Spaces

Design and Development of Low-Cost Portable Immersive Spaces

In this paper, we will explore the potentials of low-cost portable immersive environments that combine textile structures, gesture-based interfaces and multiple projections. Our aim is to develop affordable, easy to setup, portable and inviting immersive spaces that can serve as an interface between a web-based geographic virtual environment, experts and lay people. In this context, after the i...

Immersive Physiotherapy: Challenges for Smart Living Environments and Inclusive Communities

The ability to deliver therapeutic healthcare remotely relying on pervasive computing technologies requires addressing real research challenges ranging from sensing people and their interactions with the environment to software abstractions to move data from low-level signals into representations that are understandable and manipulatable by domain experts who are not computer scientists. In thi...

Inclusive Design for Older People

The Centre for HCI Design (HCID) at City University London has Inclusive Design as one of its key research themes. Older people have been the main research population we have been studying under this theme for a number of years now. Our work in this theme focuses primarily on the design and evaluation of web interfaces for this population. In this paper we describe our work in this area.

Tools for Supporting Inclusive Design

Despite the ageing population and the subsequent importance of considering older people in design, many designers struggle to do so. In particular, they often lack appropriate materials and tools to help them implement inclusive design in practice. This paper describes work at the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre to address this shortfall, developing resources to motivate and equip designers...

Immersive Empathic Design for Interdisciplinary Collaborations