FACE Disabled People, Technology and Internet
Author
Summary, in English
This thesis is based on the Internet experiences of people with
significant mobility/physical impairments who are proficient and
experienced computer users in their computer world but have
limitations in mobility that severely restrict their functioning in
the physical world. The Internet functioning of this group is
analysed by means of the factors attitude, control and enabling,
with the main focus on what is achievable when all access
problems such as unadapted interfaces, beginners? difficulties and
the digital divide are overcome. If the virtual world is fully
available but the real world is not ? what are the effects on
learning, self image, communities of practice, sense of coherence,
power and control? What are the effects on peer-to-peer learning
and co-operation? Independent living concepts and theories
manifest themselves throughout the thesis, most obviously,
perhaps, in the selection of issues that are studied and in the
perspectives.
The theoretical background and concepts are those of disability
studies, with a social model and independent living perspective,
and with strong influences from rehabilitation engineering and
design.
Throughout the thesis elaborations and clarifications of the
possibilities of interplay and co-existence between rehabilitation
engineering and design and disability studies are made. Different
aspects of function design and technology are examined from an
expanded view on functioning, where technology is put in an
individual and social context with the FACE (Function ? Attitude,
Control, Enabling) tool.
significant mobility/physical impairments who are proficient and
experienced computer users in their computer world but have
limitations in mobility that severely restrict their functioning in
the physical world. The Internet functioning of this group is
analysed by means of the factors attitude, control and enabling,
with the main focus on what is achievable when all access
problems such as unadapted interfaces, beginners? difficulties and
the digital divide are overcome. If the virtual world is fully
available but the real world is not ? what are the effects on
learning, self image, communities of practice, sense of coherence,
power and control? What are the effects on peer-to-peer learning
and co-operation? Independent living concepts and theories
manifest themselves throughout the thesis, most obviously,
perhaps, in the selection of issues that are studied and in the
perspectives.
The theoretical background and concepts are those of disability
studies, with a social model and independent living perspective,
and with strong influences from rehabilitation engineering and
design.
Throughout the thesis elaborations and clarifications of the
possibilities of interplay and co-existence between rehabilitation
engineering and design and disability studies are made. Different
aspects of function design and technology are examined from an
expanded view on functioning, where technology is put in an
individual and social context with the FACE (Function ? Attitude,
Control, Enabling) tool.
Department/s
Publishing year
2006
Language
English
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Certec, Lund University
Topic
- Human Computer Interaction
Keywords
- Design
- FACE
- Independent Living
- Disability Studies
- Social Model
- Internet
- Functioning
- Rehabilitation Engineering
- Care and help to handicapped
- Handikappade
- vård och rehabilitering
- SoTL
Status
Published
Supervisor
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 91-628-6936-1
- ISBN: 978-91-628-6936-6
Defence date
15 September 2006
Defence time
13:00
Defence place
Stora Hörsalen Ingvar Kamprad Designcenter Sölvegatan 26 223 62 Lund
Opponent
- Alan Roulstone (Professor)