Design and use of assistive technology : social, technical, ethical, and economic challenges / Meeko Mitsuko K. Oishi, Ian M. Mitchell, H.F. Machiel Van der Loos, editors ; foreword by Maja J. Matarić
Design and Use of Assistive Technology; Copyright; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; UBC Advisory Committee; PWIAS-ICICS Exploratory Workshop Participants; Contents; List of Contributors; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Part I The User's Experience; Chapter 1: Better Than New! Ethics for Assistive Technologists; Chapter 2: The Myth of Neutral Technology; Chapter 3: Accessible Technology and Models of Disability; Chapter 4: The Importance of Play:AT for Children with Disabilities; Chapter 5: Need- and Task-Based Design and Evaluation; Part II Research and Academic Outreach
Summary
"Design and Use of Assistive Technology" assesses major hurdles in the design and use of assistive technologies, while also providing guidelines and recommendations to improve these technologies. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to solving the major issues surrounding designing and using assistive technologies for the physically impaired by blending engineering, computer science and medicine. The most difficult problems in assistive technologies, such as privacy concerns in data gathering and analysis, inherent heterogeneity of the user population, knowledge transfer o
