Languages, Learning & Inclusion: AI Alternative Text Edition

This book was created as part of the ADDEPT - Autonomy, Diversity & Disability: Everyday Practices of Technology funded by ARC Linkage Project LP190100099. The digital narratives were co-created with participants across a set of online and face-to-face workshops in addition to focus groups and follow-up one-to-one interviews. Each of the participants worked with the project team to examine, explore and create these digital accessible books of their personal experiences with everyday technologies to share the impact of such technologies upon their daily lives. Over a period of two years, research participants were able to critically engage with AI technologies and create these books to publicly disseminate their diverse experiences with the aim of enabling others to learn from their personal experiences. The stories are developed from the narratives of the participants, using AI technologies such as Mid Journey to generate illustrations and Chat GPT to develop the alternative text that describes the illustrations. Accessibility information: For the alternative text, text to voice, EPUB version and copies translated to other languages (Arabic, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified and Vietnamese). Please visit https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/projects/autonomy,_diversity_and_disability_everyday_practices_of_technology