Julia Cassim

Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU, UK.
Tel: +44 20 7590 4242; Fax: +44 20 7590 4244
Email: julia.cassim@rca.ac.uk
Web: www.hhrc.rca.ac.uk/research/index.html

Interests

Julia Cassim's research focus is the development of creative partnerships between critical users (i.e. those with severe disabilities) and designers; ways to involve them in the design process to encourage innovative, inclusive thinking and the development and dissemination of knowledge transfer methodologies on inclusive design to the design and business communities.

Publications

Cassim, J. (2007) It’s not what you do it’s the way that you do it: the Challenge Workshop a designer-centred inclusive design knowledge transfer mechanism for different contexts. Proceedings of Human Computer Interaction International (HCII 2007), Beijing, China, 23-27 July 2007.

Cassim, J. (2007) The touch experience in museums in Japan and the UK – a historical overview and the example of Access Vision. In: Pye, E. ed. The Power of Touch Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Contexts. California: Left Coast Press.

Coleman, R., Clarkson, J., Cassim, J. & Dong, H. eds. (2007) Design for inclusivity. Hants: Gower.

Goodman, J., Langdon, P., Clarkson, P. J. C. & Cassim, J. (2007) Engaging the public in inclusive design. Proceedings of Include 2007: designing with people - An international conference on inclusive design, London, 1-4 April 2007.

Cassim, J. (2006) Beyond ergonomics to desirability: the Challenge Workshop model for inclusive design knowledge transfer to designers and industry. Proceedings of IAUD, 2nd International Conference on Universal Design, Kyoto, Japan, 22-26 October 2006.