25/04/2020

Reframing Disability as Competency: Unpacking Everyday Technology Practices of People with Visual Impairments

Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Joel Fischer, Stuart Reeves

Keywords: visual impairments, disability, ethnography, ethnomethodology, assistive technology

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Abstract: More than a billion people in the world live with some form of visual impairment, and a wide variety of technologies are now routinely used by them in the course of ’getting on’ in everyday life. However, little is known about the ways in which assistive and non-assistive technologies are brought to bear on material practices. We present findings from a four-month ethnographic study facilitated by a local branch of a UK charity that supports people with visual impairments. Our study explores mainstream and assistive technology use within their everyday lives. We identify three main sites for technology use: social relations and communication practices, textual reading practices, and mobility practices. Via an ethnographic approach we contribute to understanding how people accomplish such practices, and in doing so, uncover the practical competencies that enable people with visual impairments to conduct their everyday activities. Thus we investigate how disability can be thought of in terms of competencies, arguing that understanding of competencies can enrich the design of technologies that fit the needs of people with visual impairments.

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