可访问的消费电子产品对于缩小辅助技术提供方面的差距至关重要
1David Banes Access and Inclusion Services, UK.
Studies in health technology and informatics
|August 28, 2023
概括
在全球范围内,辅助技术 (AT) 的需求正在增加. 将AT集成到消费电子产品中为残疾人提供了显著的好处,并提高了投资回报率.
科学领域:
- 辅助技术 辅助技术 辅助技术
- 关于残疾人的研究.
- 人与计算机的交互
背景情况:
- 超过25亿人需要辅助产品,预计到2050年将超过35亿.
- 辅助产品设计已经从专用设备发展到消费者技术中集成的功能.
- 目前的AT交付模式,植根于医疗设备,忽视了技术趋势和用户偏好.
研究的目的:
- 为了突出AT交付模型中错失的机会.
- 倡导将辅助功能纳入主流消费者技术.
- 为用户和利益相关者展示这种综合方法的好处.
主要方法:
- 全球辅助技术报告 (2023) 的分析.
- 消费者技术和残疾人赋权趋势的审查.
- 检查当前的AT交付模型及其局限性.
主要成果:
- 全球人口老龄化正在增加对辅助产品的需求.
- 消费者技术整合为AT提供了更具包容性和成本效益的方法.
- 现有的AT交付模式未能利用技术进步和以用户为中心的偏好.
结论:
- 通过消费者技术整合来扩大AT的可用性,有利于残疾人.
- 这种方法为当局提供了更好的经济和社会投资回报.
- 从医疗器械模型向综合消费技术的转变对于未来的AT交付至关重要.
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