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Lookup NU author(s): Reuben Kirkham, Dr Tom Bartindale, Professor Patrick OlivierORCiD
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Live television production remains driven by platforms which are modelled on systems developed before digitised technology, with specialised components and systems which were designed and developed entirely for a non-disabled plurality. The effect of this is that skilled production staff who become disabled are unable to continue within their roles, in many cases becoming forced into leaving the television industry entirely. This investigation explores the possibility of using bespoke ubiquitous computing systems to circumvent existing practical and strategic restrictions upon reasonable adjustments in production roles. To make our findings, we draw upon twelve criticality-informed interviews with both production specialists and assistive technology experts, and an ethnographic study conducted in a television production environment. This investigation had a particular emphasis upon what practices are (legally) reasonable to adjust in a production environment, and thus allow the realistic targeting of adjustments to particular combinations of roles and disabilities. Through doing so, we describe a space for re-configuring existing user interfaces, practices and workflows in the production environment, introducing a new paradigm of bespoke assistive technologies. We also discuss the novel implications for both disability discrimination law and ubiquitous computing that arise from our investigation.
Author(s): Kirkham R, Bartindale T, Evans M, Olivier P
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Year: 2015
Volume: 19
Issue: 5-6
Pages: 853-880
Print publication date: 01/08/2015
Online publication date: 07/08/2015
Acceptance date: 06/05/2015
ISSN (print): 1617-4909
ISSN (electronic): 1617-4917
Publisher: Springer
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-015-0859-7
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-015-0859-7
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