Assistive technology
Assistive technology is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them. Assistive technology promotes greater independence by enabling people to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to, or changing methods of interacting with, the technology needed to accomplish such tasks.Assistive technology includes many categories, for example:
- Mobility impairment and wheelchairs.
- Mobility impairment and walkers.
- Personal emergency response systems.
- Accessibility software.
- Assistive technology for visual impairment.
- Assistive technology for cognition.
- Assistive technology for sport.
- Assistive technology for education.
Example of company, which gives people assistive technology software is Tobii.
Tobii Technology is a Swedish high-technology company that develops and sells products for eye control and eye tracking.
Examples of Tobii technology softwares and devices
Other company which gives us assistive technology software is Intel. This company support great astrophisicist Stephen Hawking almost 25 years.
Stephen Hawking using Intel Assistive technology software
Below you have a article about interaction this outstanding phisicist:
Sample of using Intel Assistive technology software
There are many others companies with assistive technology but we show the best for us in our opinion. We think that this kind of software is very important for people with some disabilities and awesome is that this software will be upgrade from one year to another.
