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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Accessible Museum Exhibitions

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Advances in Industrial Design (AHFE 2020)

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As museums continue to satisfy their legal requirements to deliver accessible services for people with sensory, mobility and cognitive impairments, there is a growing parallel concern to provide visitors with exhibitions that expand their social identity and user experience. This literature review explores the possibility of a new approach that could improve accessible services and visitor experience through emerging technologies in the areas of personalization, rapid prototyping, and ability-based design. This proposed approach considers an interdisciplinary co-design method that combines technological and disability expertise with a visitor-centered approach to accessible museum exhibitions. This literature review explains how it could create an interface which respects the visitor’s abilities, previous knowledge, and preferences and at the same time, provide a unique and engaging social experiences.

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  1. School of Industrial Design, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Carla Ayukawa & Lois Frankel

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  1. Dipartimento di Architettura, Universitàdegli Studi G.d’Annunzio”, Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Bucchianico

  2. Department of Industrial Design, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

    Cliff Sungsoo Shin

  3. University of Notre Dame, Indiana, IN, USA

    Scott Shim

  4. System Design and Management, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    Shuichi Fukuda

  5. Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Gianni Montagna

  6. Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Cristina Carvalho

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Ayukawa, C., Frankel, L. (2020). An Interdisciplinary Approach to Accessible Museum Exhibitions. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Shin, C., Shim, S., Fukuda, S., Montagna, G., Carvalho, C. (eds) Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51194-4_62

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