Our Aims

• To understand how people with language disabilities use data visualization in decision-making and the challenges they face.
• To produce better data visualization design guidelines and tools for people with language disabilities.

Our Approach

• We run in-depth studies to investigate how people use and experience data visualization for everyday decision-making.
• We want to know what works well, what barriers people face, and what workarounds they adopt.
• We use this knowledge in co-creation to design and test new, inclusive approaches to visualisation

Our Motivation

• Accessibility research in data visualization has previously considered the needs of people with visual impairments and learning disabilities, but has not explored the needs of people with language disabilities.
• We want to lead the way in expanding ideas of accessibility in data visualization to include adults with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and aphasia

Our Outputs

• Devane et al (2024a) Data visualization and decision making in adults with acquired and developmental language disabilities: A scoping review
• Devane et al (2024b) Data Visualization Experiences of People with Language Disability, a Qualitative Study
• Devane et al (2024c) Exploring Data Visualization for People with Language Disabilities, British Aphasiology Society Annual Conference, Leicester, UK

Funded under the EPSRC’s call Enabling Human Centred Decision Making through Data Visualisation, 3 year project, started 1st August 2023.