Chapter 16

Working with research participants with disabilities

Abstract

It is important that users with disabilities be involved with all types of human-computer interaction (HCI) research. Furthermore, many technologies that start out as designed for people with disabilities, later become mainstream technologies enjoyed by all (e.g., captioning, e-books, and voice recognition), and therefore, HCI research involving people with disabilities, has an impact on all HCI research. It is therefore important to pay close attention to the best practices in doing HCI research involving people with disabilities. This chapter describes how research involving people with disabilities, may differ from research with the general population. This chapter describes ...

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