Assistive Technologies
A section of Technologies (ISSN 2227-7080).
Section Information
Assistive technology is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the processes used in selecting, locating, and using them. Assistive technology promotes greater independence by enabling people to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty in accomplishing, by providing enhancements to, or changing the methods of, interacting with the technology needed to accomplish such tasks.
Accordingly, the section on “Assistive Technologies” focuses on new developments in (a) the applications of sensor-based and other technologies for persons who have a disability, (b) the assessment and selection of assistive technologies, and (c) outcome measurements for assistive technologies.
Keywords
- adaptive device
- adaptive equipment
- ambient intelligent system;
- assistive device
- assistive listening device
- assistive robotics
- assistive technology adoption
- assistive technology for cognition
- assistive technology in recreation
- assistive technology in sport
- assistive technology outcome measures
- augmentative and alternative communication
- communication aid
- hearing aid
- home automation
- memory aid
- mobility device
- seating system
- rehabilitative device
- vision aid
