User Involvement in the Early Development of Assistive Technology Devices
Clarke Zoë, Simon Judge, Nicola M. Heron, Joe Langley, Ian Michael Hosking, Mark Hawley · IOS Press eBooks · 2011
Objective. The importance of user involvement in design, development and diffusion of all devices is widely accepted; however, the methods of achieving true user contribution to a design or development process are challenging. The challenges are increased when the target consumers for the device have disabilities that can make traditional methods of gaining user involvement at best difficult, and at worst impossible. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of a number of user involvement techniques employed on projects carried out by the authors.