Institute of Computing Technology

Cripping the Controller: Changing the Game and Reimagining Access

Cripping the Controller: Changing the Game and PHOENIX PERRY, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom REBECCA FIEBRINK, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom MICK GRIERSON, University of the Arts, London, United Kingdom Game controller design systematically excludes the bodies, epistemologies, and creative…

• Future gaming hardware design must shift from standardized, normative models toward explicit personalization and modularity to accommodate diverse physical abilities.
• Designers should adopt a 'crip technoscience' framework, which treats disabled individuals as expert knowledge producers rather than passive recipients of accessibility accommodations.
• Material hacking and custom hardware development serve as forms of political resistance that challenge the exclusionary power structures inherent in traditional controller design.