Community Workshop and Design Crit Topics from 2022
- Justin Obara
Topic | Meeting format | Facilitator | Date | Time | Links / Notes | Coordinator |
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Eudaemonic Design as a Co-created Approach to Health and Well-being: An Exemplar Case with Older Adults at Home | Community Workshop | Jenna Mikus | December 13, 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | Home is central to who we are as humans. It shapes us. At a time when COVID-19-related physical distancing has prompted a global live/work/play from home pervasiveness, there is a growing demand to conceptualize how homes can encourage flourishing health and well-being. Developing this understanding is especially necessary when contemplating the impact on vulnerable demographics, such as the rapidly growing older adult population who desire to age-in-place but do not necessarily have the infrastructure and support needed to do so. Based on co-designed futuring activities conducted with older adults and designers, this research focuses on understanding what a flourishing home could look and feel like when building on the neo-Aristotelian concept of eudaemonia (literally defined as eu (good or health) + daimon (true self)), which correlates to people being the best versions of themselves. Eudaemonic well-being has evolved in the field of psychology as a means of proactively designing for flourishing health and well-being via Self Determination Theory, but it has yet to be explored in a built environment context. By considering eudaemonia as a worldview, this research examines how home-based design can prompt optimal health and well-being—not only by applying the resulting Eudaemonic Design model and principles to the home environment but also by following a respectful design approach to precipitate virtually-engaged participants to feel empowered, experience agency, and act as their best eudaemonic selves. | @Justin Obara David Pereyra |
Human-robot interaction for inclusive coding education | Community Workshop | Maysa Borges Gama | Novembere 29, 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | Educational Robotics is a widely researched and applied field, but most robotics courses for children and young are not designed or adapted for learners with disability. This context is even less explored when we observe the use of social robots for education since most human-robot interactions designed for people with disability are focused in rehabilitation, mobility, or diagnosis. Robots, especially social robots, can act as powerful tools for teaching coding to school-aged children with special needs. In this meeting, I am going to present a status report on my master's course project that seeks to adapt the Weavly platform experience into a human-robot interaction. | @Justin Obara |
UofT MScAC Applied Research Collaborations | Community Workshop | Daniel Giovannini / IDRC | October 12, 2022 | 2:30 - 4pm ET | @Justin Obara | |
CTA Image inspection | Design Crit | Caren | July 5, 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | The Canadian Typography Archives website requires an image inspection function that allows a user to magnify an artifact and pan over all parts of the artifact. Here is a link to an example of image inspection we are seeing as an exemplar experience using mouse functionality The CTA team has had some discussion and noted the following:
We look forward to the discussion! | @Justin Obara |
Meet-and-Greet | Community Workshop | Jack Tyrrell and IDRC | May 24. 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET |
| @Justin Obara |
Dobble Debate - Bake Your Own | Design Crit | Lynne Heller | February 8, 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | A continuation of the Design Crit from January 18, 2022, focused on the Bake Your Own experience. Dobble Debate: debating with a difference, is a game that facilitates discussions and learning about human difference. The game employs the powers of play and humor to catalyze open discussion and compassionate thinking around topics that are often considered taboo. Players are challenged to rethink assumptions they may have around what it means to be disabled or have lived different experiences from their own. Dobble Debate recognizes that every individual’s lived experience is different, and changes significantly based on their current environment. Therefore, we explicitly acknowledge D/deafness, disability, differing abilities , autism, and neurodiversity plus (DDDAND+). This acronym does not cover all the diverse identities usually lumped under ‘disability’; we are using it to draw attention to the variety of human experience. The label of ‘disability’ runs the risk of minimizing the diversity of lived differences. | @Justin Obara |
An artifact to aid the design of 3D printed audio-tactile graphics for blind students: a Ph.D. research | Community Workshop | Emilia Christie Picelli Sanches | January 25, 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | Description: Emilia Sanches is a Ph.D. candidate who's coming to IDRC to develop part of her research. This community workshop intends to contextualize her research and her preliminary results. She'll briefly introduce what are 3D printed audio-tactile graphics and proceed to talk about what she is doing and what her next steps are. People are encouraged to ask questions and discuss the topic. | @Justin Obara |
Dobble Debate | Design Crit | Lynne Heller | January 18, 2022 | 2 - 3pm ET | Description: Dobble Debate: debating with a difference, is a game that facilitates discussions and learning about human difference. The game employs the powers of play and humor to catalyze open discussion and compassionate thinking around topics that are often considered taboo. Players are challenged to rethink assumptions they may have around what it means to be disabled or have lived different experiences from their own. Dobble Debate recognizes that every individual’s lived experience is different, and changes significantly based on their current environment. Therefore, we explicitly acknowledge D/deafness, disability, differing abilities , autism, and neurodiversity plus (DDDAND+). This acronym does not cover all the diverse identities usually lumped under ‘disability’; we are using it to draw attention to the variety of human experience. The label of ‘disability’ runs the risk of minimizing the diversity of lived differences. | @Justin Obara |
