eprintid: 10178476 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/17/84/76 datestamp: 2023-11-09 15:08:11 lastmod: 2024-08-26 06:10:04 status_changed: 2023-11-09 15:08:11 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Bhatnagar, T creators_name: Upadhyay, V creators_name: Rao, PVM creators_name: Marquardt, N creators_name: Miodownik, M creators_name: Holloway, C title: Brilliance and Resilience: A New Perspective to the Challenges, Practices and Needs of University Students with Visual Impairments in India ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: B04 divisions: C07 divisions: C05 divisions: D05 divisions: F48 divisions: F45 keywords: Visual Impairment, Education, Assistive Technologies, Global South, Interdependence, Resilience, Interview Study note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: People with visual impairments in India have low literacy rates and only a few pursue higher education at the country's top universities. We present an insight into the educational experiences of these few university students with visual impairment based on the Frame of Interdependence. We found that educational challenges arise when interdependence fails due to restricted or misfitted assistance from social relations and ableist social interactions. Analysis of practices to overcome these challenges from the lens of Resilience Theory revealed that students develop a sense of self-confidence through successful academic experiences, internalise external stressors into intrinsic motivation, and find ways to navigate inaccessibility with the available social resources. In addition, students express the need to increase the integration of assistive technologies in education and facilitate social integration. Finally, we discuss the implications of these findings for equitable and inclusive education practices. date: 2023-08-25 date_type: published publisher: Springer official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42280-5_4 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2081178 doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-42280-5_4 isbn_13: 9783031422799 lyricists_name: Holloway, Catherine lyricists_name: Miodownik, Mark lyricists_name: Marquardt, Nicolai lyricists_name: Bhatnagar, Tigmanshu lyricists_name: Bhatnagar, Tigmanshu lyricists_id: CSHOL54 lyricists_id: MMIOD11 lyricists_id: NMARQ26 lyricists_id: TBHAT16 lyricists_id: TBHAT75 actors_name: Bhatnagar, Tigmanshu actors_id: TBHAT75 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume: 14142 place_of_pub: Cham, Switzerland pagerange: 67-88 event_title: IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. INTERACT 2023 book_title: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023 citation: Bhatnagar, T; Upadhyay, V; Rao, PVM; Marquardt, N; Miodownik, M; Holloway, C; (2023) Brilliance and Resilience: A New Perspective to the Challenges, Practices and Needs of University Students with Visual Impairments in India. In: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023. (pp. pp. 67-88). Springer: Cham, Switzerland. Green open access document_url: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178476/1/interact23a-sub1114-cam-i7.pdf