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Quantifying design exclusion

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Many designers feel that it would be extremely useful to know exactly how many people have difficulties using a particular product and why, so that they can design genuinely better (i.e. more inclusive and more acceptable) solutions. This chapter presents methods for quantifying such exclusion.

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  1. Engineering Design Centre, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK

    Simeon Keates MA, PhD & John Clarkson MA, PhD, MIEE, CEng

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Keates, S., Clarkson, J. (2004). Quantifying design exclusion. In: Countering design exclusion. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0013-3_10

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