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Dr Joy Deane

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Joy Deane

Senior Research Associate

Academic Division: Mechanics, Materials and Design

Research group: Engineering Design

Telephone: +44 1223 7 48568

Email: jag76@cam.ac.uk

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Research interests

* Understanding the impact of disability and capability loss on the use of products and services

* Developing tools and methods to help support designers in developing more inclusive products, i.e. products that are suitable for a wider range of people, including those who are older or have disabilities. These include the Impairment Simulators and Exclusion Calculator, which can be found on the Inclusive Design Toolkit.

* Analysing population data on people's capabilities and applying this to the use of products and services to estimate how many people would be able to use those products.

Biography

    B.A.(Hons), Mathematics and Computation, Oxford University, 1996

    PhD, Computing Science, Glasgow University, 2002

Joy Goodman-Deane is a Senior Research Associate in the Inclusive Design group at the Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge, where she has worked since 2004. Her research looks at how to enable companies to design more inclusive products, i.e. products that are suitable for a wider range of people, including those who are older or have disabilities. Her interests focus on developing tools and methods to help support designers in conducting inclusive design. These include the Impairment Simulators, the Exclusion Calculator and Clari-Fi, which can be found on the Inclusive Design Toolkit. She has also helped to design, administer and analyse various surveys for gathering data about users across the population that is useful for examining exclusion in design. This data includes information on digital technology use, competence and attitudes. Recent work has examined digital exclusion in public transport and car interfaces.