This document discusses cognitive accessibility and its importance for inclusion and happiness. It defines cognitive accessibility as making both physical and digital places perceivable, intelligible, and actionable for people with conditions like dyslexia, autism, or dementia. The document then provides examples of projects that aim to understand emotion in spaces, design for cognitive disabilities, and use responsive data to create emotionally aware devices. It argues that cognitive accessibility, personalization, and design for happiness are interconnected goals that can help make places better for those with needs, meaningful for many, and happier for all.

1. Sensing Happiness
Access Association November
2015

2. Alastair Somerville

3. @acuity_design

4. Sensory Design

5. Cognitive
Accessibility

6. What
Why
How

7. What

8. What is the
problem?

9. Cognitive Accessibility
affects all of us in all
the places we go:
physical & digital

10. What is it?

11. Definition

12. 3 parts

13. Making (digital or physical)
places usable
1

14. Perceivable
Intelligible
Actionable
2

15. Perceivable
Open to sensory
awareness
2

16. Intelligible
Open to human
comprehension
2

17. Actionable
Open to personal
agency
2

18. Perceivable
Intelligible
Actionable
2

19. Stress free
3

20. Discovering
problems

21. Exhibition Road
Shared Space
1

26. Perceivable
Intelligible
Actionable

27. Imperial War
Museum
2

28. Casson Mann

30. A map of gaps

31. IN
OUT

32. Perceivable
Intelligible
Actionable

33. WIAD Bristol 2015

34. More complex
definition

35. Senses
Emotions

36. Axes not spectrum

37. Conscious
Unconscious

38. Hyper-personal

39. Why

40. Accessibility

41. •Dyslexia
•Aphasia
•Non-verbal -
Severe Speech and
Language impairments
•Ageing &
Dementia
•Down Syndrome
•Autism
•Dyscalculia
W3C

42. Inclusion

43. Situational Impairment

44. "Indifference towards people
and the reality in which they
live is actually the one and
only cardinal sin in design"
Dieter Rams

45. Personalisation

46. Happiness

47. How

48. 4 interesting projects

49. Mobile Affective
Sensing and Urban
City Mood
1

50. Dr. Eiman Kanjo

51. Emotion in place

52. Wearables

54. Big Data

55. Redesign of physical
place

56. W3C
2

57. Cognitive and
Learning Disabilities
Accessibility Task
Force

58. Jamie Knight

59. CSUN 2015

60. Steve Maslin
British Standards
Institute
3

61. Designing for the
mind

62. PAS1365
DSDC
Orfield

65. BSI

66. US Army
4

67. Neuroergonomics

68. Responsive data load
through emotionally
aware devices

70. Happiness

71. Paul Dolan

72. 2 meanings

73. Happiness is well
directed attention
1

74. Positive emotion + Purpose
Time
2

75. Pamela Pavliscak

76. Positive design
manifesto

77. Autonomy & mastery
Trust & empathy
Creativity & self awareness
Connection & community
Meaning in all places

78. Autonomy & mastery
Trust & empathy
Creativity & self awareness
Connection & community
Meaning in all places

79. Unity

80. Cognitive accessibility
is
Personalisation
is
Design for happiness

81. What do you make?

82. Make places better for
people with essential
needs
1

83. Make places
meaningful for many
2

84. Make places happier
for all
3

85. The rules are not
written for this.
You can make the
difference

86. Thank you