نتایج جستجو برای: assistive technology

تعداد نتایج: 470384  

2017
Josephine McMurray Gillian Strudwick Cheryl Forchuk Adam Morse Jessica Lachance Arani Baskaran Lauren Allison Richard Booth

BACKGROUND Intelligent assistive technologies that complement and extend human abilities have proliferated in recent years. Service robots, home automation equipment, and other digital assistant devices possessing artificial intelligence are forms of assistive technologies that have become popular in society. Older adults (>55 years of age) have been identified by industry, government, and rese...

Journal: :Journal of physiological anthropology and applied human science 2001
R Ahasan D Campbell A Salmoni J Lewko

An assistive device is designed to accommodate the special needs of disability that can help people with physical, mental or cognitive challenges go through their day-to-day activities with less difficulty. An assistive device usually provide alternatives to functional limitations imposed by the client's disorder, and thereby minimising rehabilitation costs. It is therefore important to know ab...

Journal: :Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology 2012
Johan Borg Per-Olof Ostergren Stig Larsson Asm Atiqur Rahman Nazmul Bari Ahm Noman Khan

PURPOSE About half of all people with disabilities in developing countries live in extreme poverty. Focusing on the ends rather than the economic means of human development, the capability approach offers an alternative view of poverty. The purpose of this study was to explore the relation between assistive technology use and capability poverty in a low-income country. METHOD Self-reported da...

Journal: :Journal of rehabilitation medicine 2015
W Ben Mortenson Louise Demers Marcus J Fuhrer Jeffrey W Jutai James Lenker Frank DeRuyter

INTRODUCTION Assistive technology is often recommended with the aim of increasing user independence and reducing the burden on informal caregivers. However, until now, there has been no tool to measure the outcomes of this process for caregivers. OBJECTIVES To describe the development of the Caregiver Assistive Technology Outcome Measure (CATOM), a tool developed to measure the impact of assi...

Journal: :Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology 2017

2014
Erin Brady William Thies Edward Cutrell

Assistive technologies can evoke both positive and negative sentiments from users. However, much of the current literature focuses only on adoption, use, and abandonment of assistive technologies, and provides only surface-level explanations for volitional non-use. We summarize a current project that has revealed valuable insights about non-use of assistive technologies by people with visual im...

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