Designing for Collaborative Content Creation for People with Vision Impairments

Abstract

My work contributes to developing a comprehensive understanding of how people with vision impairments perform collaborative work with their sighted colleagues through the study of two diverse contexts - collaborative writing and collaborative making. Building on the insights gathered from my ethnographic field observations and interviews, I design, build and evaluate new systems to better support accessibility in groupwork. By critically reflecting on the ways in which accessibility is negotiated through interpersonal relations and organizational structures, my research informs the design of collaborative technology that can support interdependent, co-creative practices in ability-diverse teams.