Imagining Artificial Intelligence Applications with People with Visual Disabilities using Tactile Ideation
Authors: Cecily Morrison, Edward Cutrell, Anupama Dhareshwar
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Keywords: Visually impaired, blind, accessibility, design, ideation, multicultural, AI, artificial intelligence
What is the high-level research question
What kinds of things people with visual disabilities would like to have as part of their tech toolkit as AI matures.
Specific Research Question and Hypothesis
Key Findings
- Researchers collected 66 ideas of which 28 are from the UK and rest from India.
- Four of the imagined sixth senses were not specific to people with a visual disability, focusing on “knowing the future” or “diag- nosing illness through feeling the hand.”
- Forty of the remaining 62 ideas mentioned people in some way. While
Data Collection Methodologies
Researchers carried out two settings of workshops based on two types of idea generation techniques: derivative ideas and symbiotic ideas. The workshop concept was built around the notion of a sixth sense, or a superpower, that the participants would like to have. The workshop consists of two activity sessions:
- The first session starts by asking people in small groups to de- scribe, with the support of an object they are asked to bring, a sixth sense or super power that they would like to have.
- Second set of activities starts with a discussion of what artificial intelligence technologies are capable of now and what is predicted they might be capable of in 10 years’ time.
Data Analysis Methodologies
All of the workshops were video and audio recorded. The facili- tators of each group also took notes during and after the session. Each workshop group had two people draw out the ideas which were then placed in a spreadsheet
Did the paper draw convincing conclusions using the methodology
Describe a few ways in which the data collection and analysis methodology can be improved to better answer the research questions