(Week: 2) I: (Quickcheck) Evaluating First Person Accounts

Last revised date: 9/17/2026

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Overview

Learn to evaluate a first person account’s validity

Assignment Details

Assignment Description

Given 2 candidate first person accounts, identify which ones qualify as a good first-person accounts and why, then reflect on learnings about potential areas for design.

  1. Evaluate the video according to our rubric A first person account should be by a person with a disability and not an advertisement. It should provide details describing a technology and how they use it.
  2. Try the technology yourself and compare your experience to what was described. You can use a variant of the technology any computer or phone when you try it if you don’t have the same OS as the video.

Assessment & Handin Process

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