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Co-designing the automation of Theatre Touch Tours

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This paper presents the five-step co-design process of a prototype system for the automation of Touch Tours (TTs) service in theatre performances.
By grounding our research on the Social Model of Disability, we motivate our initial design by examining the outputs of our collaboration with the first inclusive professional theatre ensemble in Greece. We present our reflections on the discourse created during the co-design process, and we contribute some initial findings of the process.

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ASSETS '22: Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
October 2022
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DOI:10.1145/3517428
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  1. Accessibility
  2. Co-design
  3. Inclusion
  4. Social Model of Disability
  5. Touch Tours

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