Participation between IT Students and People with Disabilities: Initial Findings from a Service-Learning Project

Hermann, JuliaDogangün, Aysegül2023-08-242023-08-242023https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/42062By participating in the software development process, people with disabilities can have a say in how and for what they want to be supported by the resulting IT artifacts. Although the involvement strengthens the empowerment of this underrepresented target group here, people with intellectual disabilities in particular are still rarely included in the (early) stages of development. In our paper we want to contribute to changing this by presenting the participatory approach to requirements analysis and idea development in the service learning course "Inclusive IT Design" and reflecting on our first insights, also with regard to the empowerment of the target group.Participation between IT Students and People with Disabilities: Initial Findings from a Service-Learning ProjectText/Workshop Paper10.18420/muc2023-mci-ws02-443