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Assistive Technology for Totally Blind – Barriers to Adoption

Neeraj Sachdeva, Reima Suomi, Assistive Technology for Totally Blind – Barriers to Adoption. In: Tone Bratteteig, Margunn Anaestad, Espen Skorve (Eds.), IRIS36, 182–198, Akademika forlag, 2013.

Abstract:

Assistive technology for people with disabilities has improved.
Adoption and usage of assistive technology has been positively analyzed by
various researches. However, the negative socio-psychological attributes that
hinder technology adoption has not been emphasized very much in academic
research. Highlighting and discussing these attributes can help in improving
assistive technology adoption. Using perspectives drawn from interviews of
blind users heavily reliant on assistive technology, this paper details the impact
of socio-psychological barriers in assistive technology usage for completely
blind people.
Interview responses add credence to the original literature findings which
indicate that certain socio-psychological attributes in the case of totally blind
people are barriers to assistive technology adoption and usage. The results
highlight need for further research to understand these attributes in case of low
to medium intensity users of assistive technology. The results also contribute
toward expansion of current technology adoption models to give them an
increasingly balanced outlook.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpSaSu13a,
  title = {Assistive Technology for Totally Blind – Barriers to Adoption},
  booktitle = {IRIS36},
  author = {Sachdeva, Neeraj and Suomi, Reima},
  editor = {Bratteteig, Tone and Anaestad, Margunn and Skorve, Espen},
  publisher = {Akademika forlag},
  pages = {182–198},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {Assistive Technology Adoption, Totally Blind People, Socio- Psychological Attributes},
}

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