Problem
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AI accessibility
disability-centered collaboration
ability-diverse collaboration
human-agent collaboration
assistive technology
Channelling, Coordinating, Collaborating: A Three-Layer Framework for Disability-Centered Human-Agent Collaboration
🤖 AI Summary
This work addresses a critical gap in current AI accessibility tools, which predominantly focus on individual compensation while overlooking the collaborative practices through which disabled individuals navigate complex tasks by leveraging complementary capabilities. The paper proposes a novel three-tiered “Guiding–Coordinating–Co-creating” framework that, for the first time, centers the authentic collaboration patterns of disabled communities in AI design. Integrating theories of capability diversity, context co-construction, and Carlile’s 3T model, the framework reimagines AI’s role in heterogeneous collaboration: supporting the establishment of shared informational ground, mediating workflows among agents with diverse abilities, and functioning as a bounded partner in achieving collective goals. This research transcends conventional accessibility paradigms by offering a theoretically grounded and design-oriented pathway toward AI systems that foster collective intelligence in inclusive settings.
📝 Abstract
AI accessibility tools have mostly been designed for individual use, helping one person overcome a specific functional barrier. But for many people with disabilities, complex tasks are accomplished through collaboration with others who bring complementary abilities, not solitary effort. We propose a three-layer framework, Channelling, Coordinating, and Co-Creating, that rethinks AI's role in ability-diverse collaboration: establishing shared informational ground across abilities, mediating workflows between collaborators with different abilities, and contributing as a bounded partner toward shared goals. Grounded in the Ability-Diverse Collaboration framework, grounding theory, and Carlile's 3T framework, it extends the ``agents as remote collaborators'' vision by centring the collaborative, interdependent ways people with disabilities already work.
Innovation
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three-layer framework
disability-centered collaboration
human-agent collaboration
ability-diverse teamwork
AI accessibility
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