Making collaborations to design personalised technologies with people with an intellectual disability

People with a cognitive or sensory impairment often have abilities, needs and desires that are not catered for by conventional service provision or the marketplace. This presents opportunities for volunteer designers to help co-create alternative futures with them. This thesis contributes an approach of respectful design, which emphasises mutual learning, self-expression and self-determination for people with a cognitive or sensory impairment. It describes the co-creation of design profiles and video stories with people with a cognitive or sensory impairment that supported them to engage with designers and makers