Young Mi Choi, PhD and Stephen H. Sprigle, PhD, PT Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ABSTRACT User input is an important component to help guide designers in producing a more usable product. Evaluation of prototypes is one method of obtaining this input, but methods for evaluating assistive t...

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INTRODUCTION: We aimed to investigate the feasibility of assistive technology (AT) devices to improve leprosy patients' occupational performances and satisfaction. METHODS: This is a pretest-posttest design study. The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure was used to assess the occupational performance and satisfaction of five leprosy participants with grade 2 disabilities before and af...

In the nearly 30 years since the passage of the Technology-Related Assistance to Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988, technology-mediated instruction has been implemented successfully with both students without disabilities and students with a range of disabilities to help them meet the demands of instruction. In this special issue of Assistive Technology, a number of noted scholars contr...

The Northern Territory Department of Education (DoE) provided assistive technology to support the teaching and learning of students with disability, and teacher training in integrating this technology in the classroom. A professional learning consultant was recruited in October 2012 with responsibility for researching and sourcing appropriate resources based on an evaluation of the needs of stu...

89 Abstract–Assistive technology plays very important role in the life of the people who are severely disabled due to quadriplegia, spinal cord injuries, central nervous system disorders or traumatic brain. Assistive technologies help them to lead a self supportive independent life. This paper provides the brief description about the various assistive technologies which has been developed until...

Today, simple analogue assistive technologies are transformed into complex and sophisticated sensor networks. This raises many new privacy issues that need to be considered. In this paper, we investigate how this new generation of assistive technology incorporates Privacy by Design (PbD) principles. The research is conducted as a case study where we use PbD principles as an analytical lens to i...

Assistive technology (AT) is widely used in contemporary special needs education. Our interest the extent to which we can conceive of certain uses AT this educational context as a form extended cognition. It argued that what critical answering question relationship between student and more than just subject-and-instrument, but instead incorporates fluidity spontaneity puts it on functional par ...