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People with intellectual disabilities often experience inequalities that affect the standard of their everyday lives. Assistive technologies can help alleviate some of these inequalities, yet abandonment rates remain high. This is in part due to a lack of involvement of all stakeholders in their design and evaluation, thus resulting in outputs that do not meet this cohort's complex and heterogeneous needs. The aim of this half-day workshop is to focus on community building in a field that is relatively thin and disjointed, thereby enabling researchers to share experiences on how to design for and with people with intellectual disabilities, provide internal support, and establish new collaborations. Workshop outcomes will help to fill a gap in the available guidelines on how to include people with intellectual disabilities in research, through more accessible protocols as well as personalised and better fit-for-purpose technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

People with intellectual disabilities experience difficulties developing social connections with others as it heavily relies on verbal and written communication. Co-designing tangible and visual technology with people with intellectual disabilities can create new inclusive opportunities to connect with others and alternative modes of communication. This paper discusses a three stage research plan that has been created to explore such technologies, and provides findings from completing the first year of this research. This paper presents a broad research plan, what has been completed, and opportunities for novel research in the form of new technologies and design frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are laws and rights aimed at people with disabilities, especially those with Mild Intellectual Disability (LDD), who actively participate in society but face barriers in learning and participating in various activities. In Colombia, where 1.3 million people with disabilities are registered, 16.8% correspond to the category of DIL, some of whom are part of the economically active population. Despite this, significant employment gaps persist. In order to address this gap, this research focuses on the analysis of the specific problems related to the labor inclusion of people with IDL in logistics environments, particularly in cold rooms. The aim is to prevent occupational hazards through the application of Industry 4.0 technologies. Through the collaboration of the Analytics and Design Research Seedbed, with entrepreneurs and experts in the field, significant challenges in labor inclusion in low-temperature environments were identified. The agile Scrum methodology was used to develop a prototype of an application that addresses these issues. This prototype meets the functional and non-functional requirements necessary to ensure the protection and prevention of risks for workers with DIL who perform functions in refrigerated rooms. This prototype manages to provide an inclusive alternative for people with disability Intellectual Light, challenging business cultural paradigms, by integrating mobile devices with Industry 4.0 technologies, encouraging greater interaction between machines and human beings, thus prioritizing the health and safety of employees in their daily activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Karangpatihan, Ponorogo Regency, a village known as "Idiot Village" has succeeded in turning its village into an educational tourism village. The emergence of "Idiot Village" was motivated by the large number of people with mental disabilities in Karangpatihan Village due to the low economic level of the community. Based on this, the village is trying to make Karangpatihan Village empowered through the development of a tourist village. This research uses a qualitative research method with a phenomenological study approach. Creating a tourist village for people with mental disabilities is not easy, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. So the role of the village government, community, and most importantly the role of the family is very much needed to support the creation of independent people with mental disabilities. This is realized by the establishment of a house of hope and a special institution that handles people with mental disabilities and as an educational tour and place to store handicrafts that have been made by friends with mental disabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Karangpatihan Village is a village located in Ponorogo Regency, this village was better known as "idiot village" in 2008, this was due to the large number of residents with mental disabilities (idiots). The low economy and poverty are the background to the large number of people with mental disabilities. Based on these problems, the Karangpatihan Village government is empowering families to create an independent community with mental disabilities. This research aims to examine the transformation of culture-based education family empowering in building a tourist village for people with mental disabilities. This research uses a qualitative research method with a phenomenological study approach. Family empowerment is a process of increasing the family's awareness, will and ability to recognize, overcome, maintain and protect themselves with the aim of improving their welfare. Family empowerment is carried out through transformation of understanding and skills so that they are able to change behavior in maintaining good culture and preserving it through efforts to pass it on to the next generation. The transformation process is carried out through a series of learning stages carried out by adults with other adults and children who are prepared to become members of society. Cultural education aims to shape humans so that they can demonstrate their behavior as cultural creatures who are able to socialize in the life of their community and adapt to their environment as an effort to maintain survival, both individually, in groups and in society as a whole. Through cultural education, we will be able to instill positive values so that learning participants are able to become human beings who have character, people who are capable and act in accordance with the norms or values that exist in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A major concern in today's society is social inclusion and how to include marginalized people in the workforce. Based on three design principles, informed by the concepts of digital nudging and social capital, we designed a website to influence employers towards including people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in their workforce. Our aim was to explore how a digital intervention can influence employers' willingness towards recruiting people with IDD. We applied a case study approach, and gathered data from 18 employers through interviews and a survey. Results show that elements of framing recruitment alternatives and redistribution initiatives and emphasis on human diversity and common good may influence employers' willingness to recruit people with IDD. However, fostering trust seem to be based on previous interactions with social services and require a more blended approach. Overall, the digital intervention led to reflections on how to contribute to social inclusion through recruitment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated the length estimation skills of high school students with mild intellectual disabilities (N = 39) by means of a paper-and-pencil assessment and interviews. The results showed that the students performed differently in different estimation situations involving size discrepancy and accessibility of to-be-estimated objects. The students tended to underestimate the lengths of daily objects. The uses of body parts, objects in convenience, mental rulers such as 1, 10 and 15 cm as reference points through unit iteration were the strategies reported by the interviewees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the US people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) comprise one of the most likely groups to experience traumatic life events. These experiences often produce negative effects (e.g., stress, anxiety, grief, numbing, etc.) that need to be managed. Methods such as emotional self-regulation are often used to help people cope when these effects present themselves post-trauma. In recent years mobile-computing-devices-based apps have been increasingly used to help the general population with autonomous self-regulation. However, none of these is designed for people with I/DD or is cognizant of the trauma they experience in their lives. We interviewed eight (8) practitioners at a trauma services organization that, among other things, helps people with I/DD learn and practice post-trauma self-regulation. The goal of the interviews is to understand what it would take to build post-trauma self-regulation apps for people with I/DD. Based on the interview responses we argue for a set of guidelines, based on the social work practice of trauma-informed care, to design post-trauma self-regulation apps for people with I/DD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Around the world, a sizable number of people including kids, teenagers, people with intellectual disabilities, elderly people with Alzheimer's disease, and others go missing every day. Unfortunately, these people are frequently never located. It is estimated that every day, more than 500 cases of missing persons in India alone go unsolved. Currently, the search for missing people can be a drawn-out, difficult, and time-consuming process for both the police and the general public. Additionally, there is no assurance that the procedure will produce reliable results. The proposed system involves matching pictures of missing people with pictures uploaded to a central database using face recognition machine learning models, specifically the FaceNet and Mobile FaceNet models. Through the use of a mobile application, the general public can participate in this system with little to no effort by simply sharing a photo of a missing person. The process of locating a missing person takes much less time and effort thanks to the application, which compares the submitted photo with pictures in the database and identifies potential matches. Finding missing children using our system is a speciality. Through the central database, people can submit images of children who strike them as suspicious, along with GPS coordinates, remarks, and other identifying details.The submitted image is then examined alongside other missing children's images in the database. Law enforcement's efforts to find the missing child will be helped by the system's ability to find the best match. It's important to remember that while our system can aid in finding missing people, it is not error-free. The system will open a new case for the person if a new face that isn't already in the database is submitted. Our suggested system has the potential to significantly enhance the process of locating missing people, providing their families and loved ones with much-needed relief. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Whenever carrying out research, all participants must know their rights, especially when those participants are perceived as being part of a vulnerable group; however, discussing ethics in investigation can be difficult. To solve this challenge, a playful approach was taken, as playfulness can make dull tasks -- especially those that can cause discomfort and difficulties -- more entertaining and help people approach them with an open mind. This study reports on four empirical approaches that used a playful process to raise awareness about ethical concerns when doing research with neurodiverse people. For this activity, 39 cards describing and illustrating several relevant and evidence-based ethical principles were created. Then, three case studies were developed, each based on a different focus group composed of ten neurodivergent self-advocates and one with professors and students from Brazil. Each neurodivergent group was also accompanied by three support workers from the partner associations (two of the groups were accompanied by the same individuals). In total, 56 participants engaged in a playful activity that consisted of a game of 'broken telephone' where the title of a card (representing an ethical principle) is read to one of the players who then has to whisper it to the next person in line, repeating this process until reaching the last person. The last person then says what they heard out loud, with the original message being revealed for contrast. The title of the cards was discussed by the groups to understand if it was clear and understandable or difficult and confusing. Although not all the cards were validated through the activity, 14 were flagged by neurodivergent people as "needing changes". The feedback was recorded and is presented here. This study set out to validate a set of cards in easy-to-read language that could introduce ethical concepts to participants in research projects through a playful activity. Future study will see the cards iterated upon through the feedback gathered along with the creation of a small guide on how they may be used in playful activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The privacy dimensions of accessibility technologies are often understudied and overlooked. Very little prior research has investigated the privacy concerns of disabled people, and much less has studied the barriers of privacy-preserving techniques. In order to address this gap and bridge between two separate communities (accessibility and privacy), our one-day workshop explores how researchers might design and build technologies that are both accessible and privacy-preserving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There isn't enough research on people with disabilities (PWD), despite the rise in the number of PWD. Although the amount of information concerning disabilities in the workplace is growing, more research is still needed in this field. This study uses bibliometric analysis to discover the most recent publications. Bibliometrics analysis aids in quantitative and graphical analysis, which offers a better understanding of the literature. The authors conduct a bibliometric analysis of the author's publication, country, topics evolution, and keywords. This will be done using Biblioshiny and a web interface for bibliometrix analysis based on the R package. This program was selected because it creates and presents bibliometric networks more skillfully. The most influential articles and journals are also identified in the study. This article will help the future researchers in identifying the authors for collaboration and important journals for sending novel articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our presenter symposium seeks to address the mental health crisis at work by introducing four projects that all contribute to better understanding and addressing the stigma surrounding mental illness and intellectual disabilities in the workplace. We do this by presenting the history and state of mental illness stigma, including some important measuring issues. Additionally, we highlight two inductive studies and one deductive field study that examine different dynamics of workers and leaders related to navigating the stigma of mental illness and intellectual disabilities. Our findings present theoretical and practical implications that can be used for future research and effective policy and organizational guidelines to better reduce the effects of stigma and encourage a more inclusive and healthy workplace. Mental Illness Stigma in the Workplace Author: Dane Cannon; - Disability Imposter Syndrome Author: Christine Anna Mihelcic; U. of Richmond Allies as Intermediaries: Strategies that Promote Hiring People with Intellectual Disabilities Author: Christine Nittrouer; Texas Tech U. Author: Michelle Hebl; Rice U. Reframing the Traditional Sources of Mental Health Stigma Amongst Farmers Author: Devin Johnson Rapp; U. of Utah, David Eccles School of Business Author: Robert Monnot; U. of Utah, David Eccles School of Business Author: Glen E. Kreiner; U. of Utah, David Eccles School of Business [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is designed to evaluate changes in TNF-α, some hematological and biochemical biomarkers of autistic patients. The study dealt with cases of autistic patients in Ibn Rushud Hospital, fifty-nine blood samples from autistic patients (30 males and 29 females), while a group of healthy volunteers 15 males and 15 females aged between two years to 14 years. Diagnosis of autistic patients was based on Immunological tests, whereby TNF-α levels were measured. a blood test was also performed, in which PLT and HGB levels were measured, and biochemical tests, AST and ALT, results revealed a substantial rise (P<0.001) in the level of TNF-α. Wherever decreased level of HGB significantly (P>0.001) while PLT level exhibited a major rise (p<0.05) and levels of aspartate aminotransferase(AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) showed a substantial increase (p<0.001). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although digital technologies improve the quality of life for people with visual impairment, their influences on social justice are inconclusive. In this study, we use quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate the effect of real-time volunteer apps on prejudice and social connection from the perspective of both visually impaired people (VIPs) and non-impaired people (NIPs). Counterintuitively, our findings suggest that real-time volunteer apps have even a negative effect on reducing the prejudice perceived by VIPs and have no effect on reducing the prejudice of NIPs. For social connection and social acceptance, we find that these apps have a positive impact on both VIPs and NIPs. We hope this study can inspire more IS research on disability and we suggest several ideas for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes a case study of a local government in the United States that is in the process of developing an inclusive and accessible ICT infrastructure for the delivery of e-government resources and services to its citizens with specific attention paid to people with disabilities. Developing such an inclusive infrastructure has proven to be difficult for many municipalities. Attempts to comply with the legal requirements to improve the possibilities for civic engagement for people with disabilities have met with mixed results. The research reported here focuses on a municipality engaged in a complex, user-driven initiative intended to transition its existing ICT infrastructure to one that is more inclusive and accessible to all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19 outbreak has changed the learning paradigm towards a remote mode where video conferencing tools play a greater role. However, this approach presents accessibility issues for inclusive learning for people with cognitive disabilities. This study sought the experiences of relatives and autism spectrum disorder experts in using video conferencing tools for online learning throughout the pandemic. The data was collected through a survey and a thematic analysis was applied to identify the main accessibility factors that affected this group. Themes identified were: (i) complex UI (user interface), (ii) design for autonomy, and (iii) attention management. This study highlights the accessibility barriers of video tools for people on the spectrum and provide some suggestions to overcome them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several sectors, including education, have experienced rapid growth in the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI). The emergence of generative AI (GAI) models, such as GPT-4, hold the potential to transform teaching and learning. However, GAI in education presents unique challenges and risks, such as potential violation of academic integrity, negative effects on critical thinking skills, and propagation of biases and inaccuracies. This study examines organizing vision functions in the digital world to explore the opportunities and threats posed by GAI, specifically ChatGPT, in education. By identifying the main actors contributing to the early development of organizing visions of ChatGPT in education, we aim to provide valuable insights into the shared visions concerning ChatGPT in education. Understanding these implications will be crucial for educational stakeholders and society at large as they navigate the complex challenges associated with GAI in education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study emphasises the primary designing characteristics of serious games that make a balance between entertainment and education. The method description was utilised as a tool based on the analysis of serious game structure, strategies, model application, and factors of games supporting entertainment and the learning process in the literature. Through Summon system (a systematic digital library that includes various popular digital libraries), 52 potential studies were collected within the recent five years (from 2018 to 2023). The result shows that 13 methods are utilised to design serious games in reviewed papers. These methods involve a diversity of design theories proposed in these papers selected and some potential dimensions that impact the design of serious games to create the balance between entertainment and education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ableist microaggressions are subtle forms of discrimination that disabled people experience daily, perpetuating inequalities and maintaining their ongoing marginalization. Despite the importance of understanding such harms, little work has been done to examine how disabled people are discriminated against online. We address this gap by investigating how disabled people experience ableist microaggressions on social media and how they respond to and cope with these experiences. By conducting interviews with 20 participants with various disabilities, we uncover 12 archetypes of ableist microaggressions on social media, reveal participants' coping mechanisms, and describe the long-term impact on their wellbeing and social media use. Lastly, we present design recommendations, re-evaluating how social media platforms can mitigate and prevent these harmful experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]