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HCI: Empathic Interactions
How should we design experiences in an increasingly technologically oriented world?
Introduction
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What is Human Technology Interaction?
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What are disabilities?
“Disabilities is an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. An impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations.
Disability is thus not just a health problem. It is a complex phenomenon, reflecting the interaction between features of a person’s body and features of the society in which he or she lives.“
- International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH) revised by World Health Organization
Human qualities are not absolute. We are vulnerable but able to adapt. We are constantly evolving intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Design should respond to these ever changing and diverse conditions.
Here are some facts:
- The World Report on Disability suggests that more than one Billion people in the world experience disability. This constitutes 15% of the world population, Out of that 15%, 3.8% are severely disabled. This includes quadriplegia, severe depression, complete blindness, and more. [1]
- In 2010 the percentage of people with disabilities within the US was 18.7%. That’s more than 57 million people. [2], this number has increased to 61 million adults in 2020 [3].
- In 2019 the percentage of people with disabilities within European union was estimated to be over 100 million. [4]
- The U.S. population 65 years and over is projected to become larger than the population under 18 years in 2056.
- ¼ people in the EU have a long-term disability.
- The EUROSTAT estimate of the world population over 65 years for 2050 is 2 billion (almost four time more than it was in 2005 and 10 times more than it was in 1950). With the aging population reaching such high numbers, disability is not the exception, disability is the norm. With older age comes increased risk of disability, particularly concerning visual acuity, memory loss, and mobility.
You can also read more about disability here: [1]WHO, [2]US Census,[3] CDC, [4] European Disability Forum, EUROSTAT,
Why are we interested in digging deeper?
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Disability not as an attribute of the person, but as a something that is contextually dependent...
We now think of disability not as an attribute of the person, but as a something that is contextually dependent upon a person’s interactions with the environment around them Disability is a by-product of design arising from the mismatch between product / context / human potential.
Disability is part of the human condition. “Almost everyone will be temporarily or permanently impaired at some point in life, and those who survive to old age will experience increasing difficulties in functioning.” World Report on Disability
Is technology replacing human interaction?
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How Can We Rethink Our Interaction with Technology?
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