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From abandonment to adoption: advancing assistive technologies for blindness and low vision in the AI era [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Digital Health
Assistive technologies can enhance safety, independence, and quality of life for people with blindness and low vision. Despite their benefits, abandonment of these technologies remains widespread, and recent research on this issue is limited.
Roni Barak Ventura   +5 more
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Theories, models and frameworks to understand barriers to the provision of mobility-assistive technologies: a scoping review [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Open
Objectives There is strong evidence that mobility-assistive technologies improve occupational performance, social participation, educational and employment access and overall quality of life in people with disabilities.
Daniel Hind   +3 more
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Digital assistive technologies for community-dwelling people with dementia: A systematic review of systematic reviews by the INTERDEM AI & assistive technology taskforce [PDF]

open access: yesDigital Health
Introduction The use of digital assistive technologies by and for people living with dementia is promising for supporting social health and advocated as a partial solution to growing prevalence worldwide.
David Neal   +23 more
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Assistive Technologies [PDF]

open access: yes
A special place into assistive technologies is taken up by the speech recognition and speech synthesizer, which can be used by many different users, persons with visual, language or mobility disabilities.
Ion SMEUREANU, Narcisa ISAILA
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Introducing JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies: A Venue for Publishing Interdisciplinary Research on the Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Health Innovations and Emerging Technologies in the Field of Rehabilitation [PDF]

open access: yesJMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies
Rehabilitation supports the affected individual and their caregivers in managing the health condition and its associated symptoms, altering the environment to accommodate needs, adapting tasks for safe and independent performance, facilitating
Sarah EP Munce
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Understanding the Psychosocial Impact of Assistive Technologies for People With Visual Impairments: Protocol for a Scoping Review

open access: yesJMIR Research Protocols
BackgroundThere has been a rapid growth in the literature on the design and evaluation of assistive technologies for people with visual impairments; yet, there is a lack of a comprehensive analysis of the existing literature on ...
Raul Szekely   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

From Assistive Technologies to Metaverse—Technologies in Inclusive Higher Education for Students With Specific Learning Difficulties: A Review

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
The development of new technologies and their expanding use in a wide range of educational environments are driving the transformation of higher education. Assistive technologies are cutting-edge technologies that can help students learn more effectively
Gokul Yenduri   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Discernment on assistive technology for the care and support requirements of older adults and differently-abled individuals

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
Assistive technology for the differently abled and older adults has made remarkable achievements in providing rehabilitative, adaptive, and assistive devices.
P. Muthu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cutting-edge communication and learning assistive technologies for disabled children: An artificial intelligence perspective

open access: yesFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022
In this study we provide an in-depth review and analysis of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) components and solutions that support the development of cutting-edge assistive technologies for children with special needs.
Katerina Zdravkova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Insights Into the Older Adults' World: Concepts of Aging, Care, and Using Assistive Technology in Late Adulthood

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
The ongoing demographic change forces different stakeholders to cope with increasing needs in nursing care and the economic costs. Consequences arising from the population aging can be supported by assistive technologies to maintain older individuals ...
Wiktoria Wilkowska   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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