Journal of Enabling Technologies: Volume 16 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Designing enabling technologies for marginalised groups

Marc Fabri, Nigel Newbutt

Design opportunities for future development of crisis communication technologies for marginalised groups – Co-designing with Swedish disability organisations

Elisabet M. Nilsson, Jörgen Lundälv, Magnus Eriksson

The purpose is to firstly, provide an example of how voices of people with various disabilities (motor, visual, hearing, and neuropsychiatric impairments) can be listened to and…

Design your life: user-initiated design of technology to empower autistic young adults

Thijs Waardenburg, Niels van Huizen, Jelle van Dijk, Koen Dortmans, Maurice Magnée, Wouter Staal, Jan-Pieter Teunisse, Mascha van der Voort

This article describes the development and initial experiences of Design Your Life, a new design approach implementing user-initiated design of technological environments that…

Structural accessibility barriers and service gaps facing refugees with disabilities in the United States

Foad Hamidi, Zulekha Karachiwalla

The purpose of the scoping study was to understand the experiences of refugees with disabilities and their families in the US from expert service-provider perspectives, including…

3D printed children's prostheses as enabling technology? The experience of children with upper limb body differences

Melike Şahinol

This paper examines the extent to which 3D printed children's prostheses function as enabling technology. The focus lies on the experiences of children with upper limb body…

How digital fabrication technologies within digitalized innovation environments lead to participative aid development

Lukas Hellwig, Lisa Preissner, Jan Pawlowski, Wolfgang Deiters

Facilities such as FabLabs and Makerspaces are characterized by the facilities' wide range of digital fabrication technologies as well as facilities' interdisciplinary user base…

Access and tinkering: designing assistive technologies as political practice–A discussion with Zeynep Karagöz, Thomas Miebach and Daniel Wessolek

Tom Bieling, Melike Şahinol, Robert Stock, Anna–Lena Wiechern

This contribution shows perspectives of experts from different disciplines and professional backgrounds in order to elaborate on maker approaches such as do-it-yourself…

Everyday technology to support basic communication and leisure of individuals with extensive neuro-motor and speech impairments

Fiora D'Amico, Filippo Boscia, Andrea Cannone, Gloria Alberti, Giulio Lancioni

The study was to develop and test a new technology-aided program to support basic communication and leisure of people with extensive neuro-motor and speech impairments.