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Developing interactives that are inclusive of people with disabilities Anna Lindgren-Streicher MCN Conference 2012 #mcn2012eng

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Presentation at the 2012 Museum Computer Network Conference in Seattle, WA. Features work from the Creating Museum Media for Everyone project and other Museum of Science, Boston projects.

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  • 1. Developing interactives that are inclusive ofpeople with disabilitiesAnna Lindgren-StreicherMCN Conference 2012#mcn2012eng

2. Universal Design, Universal Design for Learning 3. The Creating Museum Media for Everyoneproject (CMME) further the fields capacity to design, develop and implement innovative digital interactives for science museum exhibitions that engage people with and without disabilities in informal science learning. 4. Possibilities Workshop 5. Hackathon/design charette/prototyping workshop 6. Understanding data through sonification & touch 7. Understanding data through sonification & touch 8. Multi-touch table audio layer 9. Personalizing the museum experience 10. What we learned about running workshop/hackathon Intensive workshops which bring many people together and challenge them to be creative can lead to new and interesting ideas Participants need common background information People with disabilities should be included in the design process from the beginning Personas can be a useful tool for keeping end-users in mind Varying forms of documentation are important for projects records and dissemination purposes 11. More MOS work UD touchscreens 12. More MOS work UD touchscreens 13. Questions? [email protected] @astreichs http://openexhibits.org/research/cmme/ 14. Credits Museum of Science: Christine Reich (PI), AndreaDurham (co-PI), Anna Lindgren-Streicher, Ben Wilson,Keith Simmons, Boob Rayle, Marta Beyer, StephanieIacovelli Ideum: Jim Spadaccini (co-PI), Charles Veasey WGBH NCAM: Brad Botkin (co-PI), Larry Goldberg,Madeline RothbergThis presentation was based on work supported by the National Science Foundationunder Grant No. 0532536. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this presentation are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.