This workshop paper contributed to WellComp, the First International Workshop on Computing for Well-Being in Conjunction with UbiComp 2018.

Improving people’s well-being through relevant products and services is a designer task. They achieve this by combining innovative ideas with appropriate technologies. While the Internet of Things (IoT) brings vast opportunities in this regard, it significantly raises the rapid-prototyping complexity. In this paper, we look at the challenge of designing for wheelchair users’ well-being. How do we empower designers to effectively envision relevant products and services to improve wheelchair user well-being? We propose the concept of Domain-Specific Design Platforms (DSDP) to help designers inform, rapid-prototype and evaluate their design concepts.

https://doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3267709

Cite Bibtex

@inproceedings{bourgeois-ubicomp-2018,
    author = {Bourgeois, Jacky and Liu, Songshan and Kortuem, Gerd and Lomas, Derek},
    title = {Towards a Domain-Specific Design Platform for Wheelchair User Well-Being},
    year = {2018},
    isbn = {9781450359665},
    publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    address = {New York, NY, USA},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3267305.3267709},
    doi = {10.1145/3267305.3267709},
    abstract = {Improving people's well-being through relevant products and services is a designer
    task. They achieve this by combining innovative ideas with appropriate technologies.
    While the Internet of Things (IoT) brings vast opportunities in this regard, it significantly
    raises the rapid-prototyping complexity. In this paper, we look at the challenge of
    designing for wheelchair users' well-being. How do we empower designers to effectively
    envision relevant products and services to improve wheelchair user well-being? We
    propose the concept of Domain-Specific Design Platforms (DSDP) to help designers inform,
    rapid-prototype and evaluate their design concepts.},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers},
    pages = {762–765},
    numpages = {4},
    keywords = {Wheelchair, User-centric, Internet of Things, DSDP, Data-enabled, rapid-prototyping, Well-being},
    location = {Singapore, Singapore},
    series = {UbiComp '18}
}