Chasing play on tiktok from populations with disabilities to inspire playful and inclusive technology design

Jared Duval, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Siying Chen, Melissa Chu, Divya Subramonian, Austin Wang, Geofrey Xiang, Sri Kurniawan, Katherine Isbister

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

31 Scopus citations

Abstract

There is an open call for technology to be more playful [5, 79] and for tech design to be more inclusive of people with disabilities [80]. In the era of COVID19, it is often unsafe for the public in general and people with disabilities, in particular, to engage in in-person design exercises using traditional methods. This presents a missed opportunity as these populations are already sharing playful content rich with tacit design knowledge that can be used to inspire the design of playful everyday technology. We present our process of scraping play potentials [4] from TikTok from content creators with disabilities to generate design concepts that may inspire future technology design. We share 7 emerging themes from the scraped content, a catalog of design concepts that may inspire designers, and discuss the relevance of the emerging themes and possible implications for the design concepts.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publicationMaking Waves, Combining Strengths
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450380966
DOIs
StatePublished - May 6 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterisation, ICMPC 2020 - Mathura, U.P., India
Duration: Feb 21 2020Feb 23 2020

Publication series

NameConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterisation, ICMPC 2020
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityMathura, U.P.
Period2/21/202/23/20

Keywords

  • Chasing play
  • Design concepts
  • disability
  • Inclusive design
  • Play potentials
  • Populations with special needs
  • Social media
  • Tiktok

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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