Abstract
Some studies report that aesthetics of Assistive Technologies (AT) as well as the emotional reactions that occurs when it is observed and used have great impact on stigmatization. In this scope, and based on the fact that the context influences the User Experience (UX) with AT, we are interested in investigate if the context influences the stigmatization of an AT, in particular a traditional wheelchair. It was developed a questionnaire with semantic variables related to aesthetic and emotional reactions, used by 46 university students when interact with two virtual environments with a wheelchair: a garden environment with people and other with the wheelchair only. We did not identify statistically significant differences between the two contexts for emotional and aesthetics variables. This preliminary study points the need to develop more studies related with the influence of the participant population, the characteristics of context and the need to have a narrative to avoid different interpretations of the situation.
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This work was supported by grants BEX 10078-13/4 to Luciana Teles Carneiro from CAPES Foundation Ministry of Education of Brazil.
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Carneiro, L., Oliveira, T., Noriega, P., Rebelo, F. (2016). Can the Context Stigmatize the Assistive Technology? A Preliminary Study Using Virtual Environments. In: Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 485. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41983-1_26
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