TY - JOUR
T1 - Build me a Ubicomp
T2 - bespoke ubiquitous accessibility in live television production environments
AU - Kirkham, Reuben
AU - Bartindale, Tom
AU - Evans, Michael
AU - Olivier, Patrick
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to our participants for the insightful contributions that they offered to this work. We are also grateful to both CanAssist and the British Broadcasting Corporation for enabling this research to be completed. The first author was funded by an EPSRC DTA award, as well as the British Broadcasting Corporation for the period of this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer-Verlag London.
PY - 2015/8/18
Y1 - 2015/8/18
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Accessibility
KW - Assistive technology
KW - Bespoke assistive technology
KW - Disability
KW - Production environments
KW - Television
KW - Ubiquitous computing
KW - Video editing
KW - Wearable computing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84939414946&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00779-015-0859-7
DO - 10.1007/s00779-015-0859-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84939414946
SN - 1617-4909
VL - 19
SP - 853
EP - 880
JO - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
JF - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
IS - 5-6
ER -