Why the article is helpful
- The role technology plays today in the lives of families who have children with cognitive disabilities
- How families find, acquire, and use these technologies
- Key factors that increase or decrease the adoption of technology
This article discusses reasons and context behind user abandonment of assistive technology in the home, emphasizing the need for ease of installation, use and upgrade both by the disabled user and a caregiver who may have to maintain, set up or otherwise use the equipment. The author addressed the gaps in existing research and encouraged future efforts in assistive technology design.
Links to article
Dawe, M. (2006). Desperately seeking simplicity: how young adults with cognitive disabilities and their families adopt assistive technologies. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. doi:10.1145/1124772.1124943