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- Title
Primitive way country come look inside.
- Authors
Stienon, Ysolde; Tsaplina, Marina
- Abstract
A disabled poet with Rett syndrome and a disabled performing artist with type 1 diabetes document their 12-month artistic collaboration to illuminate ground-time: the nonverbal, expressive dynamics of embodied communication. Five "communication moments" between the artists (documented in writing, video, and photo) are described. Potentials and limitations of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technologies, specifically Tobii Dynavox eye-tracking technology and Communicator 5, are discussed. Additionally, the authors question the clinical diagnostic category of "intellectual disability" on the grounds of disability justice, decolonial science, and philosophy. Communication-assistive technology platform developers are challenged to consider relational embodiment as the foundation of communication in design decisions regarding platform function. Technologies should facilitate improvisation and nonlinear expression—verbal and nonverbal— while maintaining freedom of nondisclosure. The right to opacity in communication is also discussed.
- Subjects
ARTISTS with disabilities; POETS; RETT syndrome; NONVERBAL communication; INTELLECTUAL disabilities; COMMUNICATION devices for people with disabilities; EYE tracking; ART &; technology; PEOPLE with diabetes
- Publication
Leonardo, 2024, Vol 57, Issue 2, p179
- ISSN
0024-094X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/leon_a_02500