.@elizejackson's 'disability dongle' has been v helpful for me in thinking about haptics/accessibility tech. Expanded treatment here w/@FractalEcho & @alexhaagaard is brilliant & required reading for anyone promoting digital 'fixes' for disability.
blog.castac.org/2022/04/disabi…
blog.castac.org/2022/04/disabi…
And as a bonus: one of their exs in the piece is foot haptics/haptic feetback/haptic shoes, consistently pushed as navigational aids for blind and low-vision people, despite their repeated failures to provide practical advantages over canes.
"This is another characteristic of the Disability Dongle: a cycle of repetition and replication that traps our collective imagination in a designerly Groundhog Day, as the same thing is invented for the first time over and over again."
(this is true of #haptics tech more generally: the same tech developed 20 years ago--vibrating armbands, haptic shirts, whatever--is continually reinvented with no acknowledgement of previous work & esp of previous failures, because this would deflate/disrupt hype cycle)
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