DPID 2022: The 1st ASSETS International Workshop on “Designing with and for People with Intellectual Disabilities”

An online event with asynchronous and synchronous activities on October 19th, 2022, from 9am to 1pm Athens time
www.luxia.inf.usi.ch/dpid/
luxia@usi.ch

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Call for Participation
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This half-day workshop aims to focus on community building, enabling researchers to share experiences on designing for and with people with Intellectual Disabilities, providing internal support, and establishing new collaborations.

Our pre-workshop plans propose asynchronous activities to support networking and to understand participants’ preferences and needs. Workshop outcomes will help fill a gap in the available guidelines on including people with intellectual disabilities in research, which should lead to more accessible protocols and personalised and better fit-for-purpose technologies.

Areas of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- Verbal and non-verbal communication (e.g., language, AAC, signals, feedback)
- Methods for working with participants (e.g., experience reports, co-design, focus groups, scaffolding, active support)
- Design and development of hardware and software (e.g., inclusive applications, assistive technology, multisensory experiences, AR/VR)
- Assessment techniques (e.g., cards, multiple choices, open-ended questions, satisfaction surveys)

We are pleased to announce that this workshop is open to everyone interested in the topic, regardless of experience and expertise level. Participants will be able to apply in multiple ways:

- Filling in a form available on our website expressing interest
- Sending an abstract by e-mail (150 words)
- Submitting an experience report via video (5-minute maximum), text, or audio by e-mail

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Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: Friday, September 23th at 11:59pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth Time Zone)
Acceptance Notifications: Wednesday, September 28th
Asynchronous Activities Period: Monday, October 3rd – Friday, October 14th
Synchronous Workshop Date: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022, from 9am to 1pm Athens time

We are happy to inform you that ASSETS is providing Diversity and inclusion scholarships for eligible participants: https://assets22.sigaccess.org/dei_scholarship.html

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Workshop Organizers
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Leandro Soares Guedes, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland
Ryan Colin Gibson, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Kirsten Ellis, Monash University, Australia
Laurianne Sitbon, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia
Monica Landoni, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland

Thank you,
The DPID Workshop Organizing Committee 2022

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Leandro Soares Guedes
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
East Campus - Lugano - TI - Switzerland
http://leandro.guedes.com.br/
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