Delimiting Inclusive Design

This paper was written as an answer to the question raised by my PhD dissertation on accessibility through user-centred and Inclusive Design (ID) methods: can Inclusive Design be delimited? The literature on Inclusive Design deals almost entrirely with consumer product design and assistive technology (AT). There are a few papers (e.g. REF) which hint at the role that could be played by ID in the realm of public transport (PT) where accessibility is mandated by law. Taking these three disciplines as the three key areas of industrial design in its broadest sense, this paper provides a synthesis of work done in three previous papers. The first paper considered cases of ID and AT as reported in two major, relevant conference series. The second paper consisted of an analysis of nine cases of design for public transport (REF). The third paper consisted of an analysis of nine cases of design for assistive technology (REF). In the latter two papers semi-structured interviews were conducted.
This paper draws the work together.