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Digital Skills for People with Disabilities in a Learning and Demonstration Experience Laboratory

The Project, “Emscher-Lippe hoch 4”

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The project “Emscher-Lippe hoch 4” (EL4) faces the challenges of digitalization in the Emscher-Lippe region in Germany. Within the project one issue is the empowerment of people with disabilities’ participation through low-threshold learning and demonstrating experience laboratories like MakerSpaces. To do so, EL4 installed a so called “Mini-FabLab” in a sheltered workshop in Bottrop. This Mini-FabLab looks at digital technologies from a social and not just from a technological perspective – it thus does not ask for general technological designs, but rather asks for new social practices like the empowerment of people with disabilities. Furthermore with its location in an old covered storage room, the Mini-FabLab illustrates that every place can become a place for inclusion. Through this, the Mini-FabLab enables people with disabilities the opportunity to develop individualized 3D-printed objects and assistance systems for their workplace as well as for their everyday life. As a result, various objects, like for example twist locks, keychains, toothpaste squeeze and blade stoppers were developed to use it as toys but also as assistive tools. Some of these will be presented in the paper, whereby the process of the idea finding (identification of a problem), development and solution of the object will be described in detail.

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  • Emscher-Lippe hoch 4
  • Mini-FabLab
  • People with disabilities

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    Person-centered interaction and communication for more self-determination in life.

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    The total cost for the renovation and the needed equipment was about 3,000 euro, whereby the technical equipment was covered by the EL4 project. In the current equipment state, the Mini-FabLab costs approx. 6,530 euro.

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  1. Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund - Central Scientific Institute of the Technische Universität Dortmund, 44339, Dortmund, Germany

    Ann Christin Schulz

  2. Diakonisches Werk im Ev. Kirchenkreis Gladbeck-Bottrop-Dorsten gGmbH, 46238, Bottrop, Germany

    Caroline Hirtz

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Schulz, A.C., Hirtz, C. (2020). Digital Skills for People with Disabilities in a Learning and Demonstration Experience Laboratory. In: Antona, M., Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Practice. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12189. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49108-6_20

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