In recent years debate concerning the right to repair has emerged as a critical issue at the interface between law, technology and society. Issues of planned obsolescence, the high costs of maintenance and proprietary strategies that function to constrain the repairability of technological devices have particular and profound implications for assistive technologies. The increasing integration of digital technologies into various assistive devices also has the effect of multiplying the forms of technological interdependency and thereby possible points of failure in these systems.
Our speakers will discuss the complex regulatory and legal issues that characterise this space and the practical ways in which device users are already engaged in creative and innovative practices of repair, modification and maintenance.
This workshop will include a Q&A session. A light lunch will be provided.
Speakers:
Professor Jackie Leach Scully – Director, UNSW Disability Innovation Institute
Dr Kevin Witzenberger & Professor Matthew Kearnes – School of Humanities and Languages UNSW
Dr Kayleen Manwaring & Wanda KuaiIain Brown – Senior Research Fellow & Research Scholar, UNSW
Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation
Margaret Noonan – Assistive Technologies Suppliers Association
Lauren Kark – Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
