 Inclusive design
Inclusive design is not only an approach to design that ensures mainstream products and services are accessible to, and usable by, people within the widest range of situations, but also a way of thinking which can help solve complicated problems which have people at their heart.
» Focus: barriers and drivers, business case, toolkits, assessment, applications, design exclusion
» Project:
Current project: EPSRC EP/F032145/1 “Facilitating Wider Uptake of Inclusive Design” (2008-2011)
Past projects:
EPSRC-funded i~design 1 (GR/M69470): providing tools for the design community to address the needs of the whole population
EPSRC-funded i~design 2 (GR/S 9639501): providing tools to improve quality of life for the wider population
DTI sponsored project on investigating the inclusivity of digital television Set-Top Box receivers
DTI sponsored project on industry awareness of inclusive design
» Publication (selected):
| • Coleman R, Clarkson J, Dong H and Cassim J (2007) Design for Inclusivity , Gower Publishing Limited, Hampshire, UK. |
| • Dong H (2007) ‘Inclusive design: an investigation in the context of UK industry’, Design for All, March 2007, 2 (3), Design for all Institute of India, pp24-45 |
| • Goodman J, Dong H, Langdon P and Clarkson J (2006) ‘Increasing the uptake of inclusive design in industry’ Gerontechnology, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp 140-149 |
| • Dong H , Clarkson PJ, Ahmed S and Keates S (2004) ‘Investigating perceptions of manufacturers and retailers to inclusive design’, The Design Journal, 7(3), pp3-15 |
| • Dong H (2007) ‘Shifting paradigms in Universal Design’, Universal Access in HCI, Part 1, HCII2007, LCNS 4554 (Stephanidis C ed), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp.137-146 |
| • Dong H , Clarkson, J (2005) ‘Combating barriers to inclusive design – evaluation of an inclusive design toolkit ”, ICED 05, 15th International, Conference on Engineering Design, Melbourne, Australia, August 15-18, 2005 |
| • Dong H , Clarkson, J (2005) ‘The framework of an inclusive design toolkit’, INCLUDE 2005, The Royal College of Art, London, April 5-8, 2005 |
| • Dong H and Clarkson J (2004) ‘ Requirements capture for inclusive design resources and tools’. Proceedings of ESDA’04 7 th Biennial ASME Conference Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, Manchester, United Kingdom, July 19-22, 2004 |
| • Dong H , Keates S , Clarkson J, and Cassim, J (2003) ‘Implementing inclusive design: the discrepancy between theory and practice’. Universal Access, LNCS 2615 (Carbonell N and Stephanidis C eds), Springer-Verlag, pp106-117 |
| • Clarkson J, Keates S, Dong H, and Langdon P (2002) ‘Understanding the range of user capabilities’. Computer-based Design (Shahin T M M ed), Professional Engineering Publishing, pp303-312 |
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» People:
Dr Hua Dong
Farnaz Nickpour
Chris McGinley
Laura Baird |
