Stitching Together the Experiences of Disabled Knitters

要旨

Knitting is a popular craft that can be used to create customized fabric objects such as household items, clothing and toys. Knitting is also a relaxing and calming exercise for many knitters. Little is known about how disabled knitters use and benefit from knitting, and what accessibility solutions and challenges they create and encounter. We conducted interviews with 16 experienced, disabled knitters and analyzed 20 threads from five forums that discussed accessible knitting to identify how and why disabled knitters knit, and what accessibility concerns remain. We additionally conducted an iterative design case study developing knitting tools for a knitter who found existing solutions insufficient. Our innovations improved the range of stitches she could produce. We conclude by arguing for the importance of improving tools for both pattern generation and modification as well as adaptations or modifications to existing tools such as looms to make it easier to track progress

著者
Taylor Gotfrid
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Kelly Mack
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Kathryn J. Lum
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Evelyn Yang
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Jessica Hodgins
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Scott E. Hudson
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Jennifer Mankoff
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
DOI

10.1145/3411764.3445521

論文URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445521

動画

会議: CHI 2021

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2021.acm.org/)

セッション: Accessible Interaction

[A] Paper Room 01, 2021-05-13 17:00:00~2021-05-13 19:00:00 / [B] Paper Room 01, 2021-05-14 01:00:00~2021-05-14 03:00:00 / [C] Paper Room 01, 2021-05-14 09:00:00~2021-05-14 11:00:00
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