Akhilesh Kumar Bhagat

When Assistive Technologies become Provocations: Unpacking Access in HCI practices using Crip Technoscience, Mouth Interfaces, and XR

XR technologies often presume hand-based interaction as universal, marginalizing people with limited mobility. In close collaboration with two disabled artists, we developed a mouth interface that reimagines XR interaction, foregrounding disabled practices. Rather than positioning as an accessibility “fix,” we stage t…