Abstract
This paper focuses on two trends in the field of disability and rehabilitation: (a) the desire to conserve resources and yet provide consumers with the highest quality assistive technologies that they find personally appealing and useful and (b) the involvement of the consumers of rehabilitation services in key decisions regarding the products and services they receive. The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology Evaluation and Transfer (Buffalo, NY, USA) has endeavoured to accomplish both by employing a mixed methods approach to consumer-identified needs and preferences regarding several categories of assistive technology. The purpose of this paper is to describe the methods used in sufficient detail for replication by other researchers.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 528-535 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Disability and Rehabilitation |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1997 |
Keywords
- Assistive technology evaluation
- Participatory action research
- Product usability
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