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Teaching Accessibility with Personas

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2016)

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Personas are widely applied in Human-computer interaction and beneficial to understand the target users of a product. We use personas in the MOOCAP project to impart knowledge on Digital Accessibility. This paper presents selected course material of the MOOC Digital Accessibility. The proposed educational concept uses personas repetitively to build foundations of knowledge on accessibility. Additionally, an evaluation of the course material is presented.

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    https://www.futurelearn.com/.

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    The MOOCAP day-in-the-life stories have strong similarities with personas. They were created on the basis of extensive experience with these types of people and not on the basis of a field research. For that reason, the term personas is avoided.

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    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7yTykBzKH4fdGNQY0JhNEtCRzg.

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Results presented in this paper have been researched within the MOOCAP project which is funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no. 2014-1-DE01-KA203-000679 (MOOC Accessibility Partnership), through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

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    Claudia Loitsch, Gerhard Weber & Jens Voegler

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Loitsch, C., Weber, G., Voegler, J. (2016). Teaching Accessibility with Personas. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9758. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_62

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