Participatory Design with Proxies

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Participatory Design with Proxies

• Jordan Boyd-Graber and Sonya Nikolova
• Princeton University

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We are working on

• Desktop-PDA system for people with aphasia
• Desktop Component
• Large, flexible system
• Create appointments and phrases
• Mobile Component
• View compositions without stigma
• Use system for phrase playback

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Designing for People with Aphasia

• Main Challenges
• Communicating with the user population
• Designing for varying degrees of the disability
• Inaccessible user population

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Participatory Design with Proxies

• Proxies three SLPs
• Alternative and augmentative communication
  devices
• Hundreds of cases
• Family situations and patient needs
• Communication strategies

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Participatory Design with Proxies

• Low fidelity prototype evaluation
• Structured Interviewing
• Ethnographic Interviewing

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Questions

• Are there other alternatives to using proxies?
• Is the use of proxies an effective design
  strategy?
• How do we measure the effectiveness of this
  approach?