Designing for Situational Visual Impairments: Supporting Early-Career Designers of Mobile Content

Garreth Tigwell; Rachel Menzies; David Flatla

doi:10.1145/3196709.3196760

Designing for Situational Visual Impairments: Supporting Early-Career Designers of Mobile Content

Garreth Tigwell, Rachel Menzies, David Flatla

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Abstract

Mobile devices are a substantial part of our lives, supporting communication, work, and play. However, situational visual impairments (SVIs) can make completing tasks a challenge (e.g., browsing online in bright sunlight) and poorly designed content can cause or exacerbate SVIs. We surveyed 43 mobile content designers and ran four follow-on interviews to understand what designers currently do regarding SVIs, what resources they know of, and what is required to best support them in designing to reduce SVIs. Our findings highlight key similarities and differences between accessibility and designing to reduce SVIs. Our participants requested improved guidelines, education, and digital design tools for SVIs. To accommodate the growing number of people affected by SVIs and improve the inclusion of accessibility in design, we introduce recommendations that leverage the overlap between accessibility and SVIs to minimise the effort required in extending current design processes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	387-400
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450351980
ISBN (Print)	9781450351980
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196760
Publication status	Published - 8 Jun 2018
Event	Design interactive Systems 2018 - The School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Duration: 9 Jun 2018 → 13 Jun 2018 http://dis2018.org/

Conference

Conference	Design interactive Systems 2018
Abbreviated title	DIS 2018
Country/Territory	China
City	Hong Kong
Period	9/06/18 → 13/06/18
Internet address	http://dis2018.org/

Keywords

Accessibility
Mobile content design
Situational impairments

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction

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Tigwell, G, Menzies, R & Flatla, D 2018, Designing for Situational Visual Impairments: Supporting Early-Career Designers of Mobile Content . in DIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 387-400, Design interactive Systems 2018, Hong Kong, China, 9/06/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196760

Designing for Situational Visual Impairments: Supporting Early-Career Designers of Mobile Content . / Tigwell, Garreth; Menzies, Rachel; Flatla, David.
DIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 387-400.

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