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The Assistive Technology Capacity Assessment (ATA-C) Instruction Manual, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), provides comprehensive guidelines for evaluating a country's capacity to provide assistive technology (AT) services. The manual outlines a five-step process to assess and strengthen the AT sector, focusing on the 5P framework: people-centered approaches, policy, products, provision, and personnel. Intended for policymakers, healthcare providers, and stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries, the manual aims to address the barriers faced in the supply and demand of assistive products. The ATA-C tool is a collaborative effort with inputs from various global partners and has been field-tested in multiple countries. It serves as a resource to enhance decision-making, improve access to AT, and promote equitable health systems worldwide.
Assistive computer technology. --- Public health. --- Assistive computer technology --- Public health
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This policy brief from the World Health Organization addresses the critical importance of access to assistive technology as a fundamental human right. It highlights the increasing demand due to aging populations and rising prevalence of diseases, with a projected need for two billion people by 2050. The brief urges the integration of assistive technology into universal health coverage to ensure equitable access and reduce financial burdens. It identifies key challenges such as high costs, lack of awareness, and limited political support, and suggests actions to improve access including enhanced policy frameworks, investment in quality products, and comprehensive service provision. The intended audience includes policymakers and stakeholders involved in health and social welfare programs.
Assistive computer technology. --- Medical policy. --- Assistive computer technology --- Medical policy
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The International Web for All Conference (W4A) began in 2004 as a workshop to make the World Wide Web accessible for people with disabilities. Over the years the workshop has grown into the top conference for web accessibility research, attracting a diverse crowd from academia, industry, government, and nonprofits. W4A has become the venue for scientists, students, and practitioners from around the world to showcase their latest research, widen their perspectives through discussions with peers, and establish future research agendas.
Assistive computer technology --- Automation --- Social aspects
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"This book investigates disabled children's learning with digital technologies such as mobile devices and the internet. Sue Cranmer explores the ways in which digital technologies can support or act as barriers to disabled children's learning and inclusion in mainstream schools, drawing on international persepctives and the results of a recent study of 13-17 year old disabled students and their teachers in mainstream schools"--
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Digital rights Management (DRM) in the context of books and all who are part of the publishing ecosystem.
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This book illustrates the rapid pace of development in intelligent assistive technology in recent years, and highlights some salient examples of using modern IT&C technologies to provide devices, systems and application software for persons with certain motor or cognitive disabilities. The book proposes both theoretical and practical approaches to intelligent assistive and emergent technologies used in healthcare for the elderly and patients with chronic diseases. Intelligent assistive technology (IAT) is currently being introduced and developed worldwide as an important tool for maintaining independence and high quality of life among community-living people with certain disabilities, and as a key enabler for the aging population. The book offers a valuable resource for students at technical, medical and general universities, but also for specialists working in various fields in which emergent technologies are being used to help people enjoy optimal quality of life.
Self-help devices for people with disabilities. --- Assistive computer technology. --- Accessible computing technology --- Adaptive computing --- Adaptive computing technology for people with disabilities --- Assistive computing technology --- Barrier-free computing technology --- Computers and people with disabilities --- Self-help devices for people with disabilities --- Assistive technology --- Self-help devices for the disabled --- People with disabilities --- Computational intelligence. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computational Intelligence. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing
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This book is the first resource to provide in-depth coverage on topical areas of assistive, rehabilitative, and health-related applications for haptic (touch-based) technologies. Application topics are grouped into thematic areas spanning haptic devices for sensory impairments, health and well-being, and physical impairments which are illustrated in this book. A diverse group of experts in the field were invited to contribute different chapters to provide complementary and multidisciplinary perspectives. Unlike other books on haptics, which focus on human haptic perception, specific modalities of haptics (e.g., realistic haptic rendering), or broadly cover the subfields of haptics, this book takes an application-oriented approach to present a tour of how the field of haptics has been advanced with respect to important, impactful thematic focuses. Under Theme 1 “Sensory Impairments”, haptics technologies to support individuals with sensory impairments is presented which includes: Spatial awareness in sensory impairments through touch; Haptically-assisted interfaces for persons with visual impairments; and Enabling learning experiences for visually impaired children by interaction design. Under Theme 2 “Haptics for Health and Well-Being”, haptics technologies aimed at supporting exercise and healthy aging will be covered including: Haptics in rehabilitation, exergames and health; Therapeutic haptics for mental health and well-being; and Applications of haptics in medicine. Under Theme 3 “Haptics for Physical Impairments”, haptics technologies for enhancing the quality of life for individuals with weakened/impaired limbs or neurological diseases impacting movement is targeted including: Assistive soft exoskeletons with pneumatic artificial muscles; Haptics for accessibility in rehabilitative hardware; and intelligent robotics and immersive displays for enhancing haptic interaction in physical rehabilitation environments. Engineers, scientists, and researchers working in the areas of haptics, multimedia, virtual/augmented/mixed-reality, human-computer interaction, assistive technologies, rehabilitative technologies, healthcare technologies, and/or actuator design will want to purchase this book. Advanced level students and hobbyists interested in haptics will also be interested in this book.
Haptic devices. --- Assistive computer technology. --- Accessible computing technology --- Adaptive computing --- Adaptive computing technology for people with disabilities --- Assistive computing technology --- Barrier-free computing technology --- Computers and people with disabilities --- Self-help devices for people with disabilities --- Haptic interfaces --- Haptic technology --- Computer input-output equipment --- Robotics --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Multimedia information systems. --- Robotics. --- Control engineering. --- Mechatronics. --- People with disabilities. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Multimedia Information Systems. --- Control, Robotics, Mechatronics. --- Disability Studies. --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Mechanical engineering --- Microelectronics --- Microelectromechanical systems --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Automation --- Programmable controllers --- Machine theory --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction
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This proceedings book presents papers from the 10th Cambridge Workshops on Universal Access and Assistive Technology. The CWUAAT series of workshops have celebrated a long history of interdisciplinarity, including design disciplines, computer scientists, engineers, architects, ergonomists, ethnographers, ethicists, policymakers, practitioners, and user communities. This reflects the wider increasing realisation over the long duration of the series that design for inclusion is not limited to technology, engineering disciplines, and computer science but instead requires an interdisciplinary approach. The key to this is providing a platform upon which the different disciplines can engage and see each other’s antecedents, methods, and point of view. This proceedings book of the 10th CWUAAT conference presents papers in a variety of topics including Reconciling usability, accessibility, and inclusive design; Designing inclusive assistive and rehabilitation systems; Designing cognitive interaction with emerging technologies; Designing inclusive architecture; Data mining and visualising inclusion; Legislation, standards, and policy in inclusive design; Situational inclusive interfaces; and The historical perspective: 20 years of CWUAAT. CWUAAT has always aimed to be inclusive in the fields that it invites to the workshop. We must include social science, psychologies, anthropologies, economists, politics, governance, and business. This requirement is now energised by imminent new challenges arising from techno-social change. In particular, artificial intelligence, wireless technologies, and the Internet of Things generate a pressing need for more socially integrated projects with operational consequences on individuals in the built environment and at all levels of design and society. Business cases and urgent environmental issues such as sustainability and transportation should now be a focus point for inclusion in an increasingly challenging world. This proceedings book continues the goal of designing for inclusion, as set out by the CWUAAT when it first started.
Engineering design. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Robotics. --- Automation. --- Rehabilitation medicine. --- Citizenship. --- Engineering Design. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Robotics and Automation. --- Rehabilitation Medicine. --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Medicine, Rehabilitation --- Rehabilitation medicine --- Rehabilitation --- Medicine, Physical --- Automatic factories --- Automatic production --- Computer control --- Engineering cybernetics --- Factories --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanization --- Assembly-line methods --- Automatic control --- Automatic machinery --- CAD/CAM systems --- Robotics --- Automation --- Machine theory --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Law and legislation --- Design --- Assistive computer technology --- Accessible computing technology --- Adaptive computing --- Adaptive computing technology for people with disabilities --- Assistive computing technology --- Barrier-free computing technology --- Computers and people with disabilities --- Self-help devices for people with disabilities --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Medical rehabilitation.
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