A short comment:
The disabled persons I know (if I understand them correctly) don't mind outsiders to try to immerse themselves in the disabled person's experience (bearing in mind that this "faked" experience can never be the real "thing")- what they do mind is if they _only_ do this and don't try to involve/ask real users (in this cases persons with disabilities) as well.
Best wishes,
/Charlotte
Charlotte Magnusson, Assistant Professor
Certec, Division of Rehabilitation Engineering Research
Department of Design Sciences
Lund University, Sweden
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From: Chris RUST(SCS) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: fredag den 19 april 2002 10:24
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Subject: Enter the Context
Soumitri said:
>Time to set aside evolutionary design methodologies I
>guess. And so enters the context.
Isn't this rather too binary? I would prefer to think of evolution as the child
of context.
And what sort of "stakeholders conference" would bring the voice of the diverse
email user to microsoft's attention?
I do like "Enter the context" though. It could be a stage instruction as used
above or an imperative for designers. I have seen disabled people complain
that it is arrogant and superficial for outsiders to try to immerse themselves
in the disabled person's experience but I imagine that the same people will
readily complain that things are never designed appropriately for them. (I
complain all the time about everything so they have my sympathy on both counts)
regards
Chris
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