This edited book focuses on the role and use of VR for healthcare professions in both health and rehabilitation settings. It is also offers future trends of other emerging technology within medicine ...and allied health professions. This text draws on expertise of leading medical practitioners and researchers who utilise such VR technologies in their practices to enhance patient/service user outcomes. Research and practical evidence is presented with a strong applied emphasis to further enhance the use VR technologies within the community, the hospital and in education environment(s). The book may also be used to influence policymakers on how healthcare delivery is offered.
This book examines the role of everyday technology throughout the life cycle in order to demonstrate the wide acceptance and impact of everyday technology and how it is facilitating both ...practitioners and patients in contemporary practices. In response, then, this text speaks to a number of audiences. Students writing for undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations/proposals will find the array of works insightful, supported with a vast number of references signposting to key texts. For academics, practitioners and prospective researchers this text offers key empirical and methodological insight that can help focus and uncover originality in their own field.
We anticipate that readers will find the collection of empirical examples useful for informing their own work, but also, it attempts to ignite new discussions and arguments regarding the application and use of everyday technology for enhancing health internationally.
Explores the multifaceted use and application of each ‘everyday technology’ that impact on diagnosis, treatment and management of individuals.
Examines an array of everyday technologies and how these that can either enhance and/or hinder patient/service user outcomes i.e. handheld devices, computer workstations, gamification and artificial intelligence.
Discusses technologies that are intended to facilitate patient diagnosis, practitioner-patient relations, within an array of health contexts.
Provides readers with an overview with future direction of everyday technologies and its limitations.
Section 1 Introductory Perspective
1. Everyday Technology in Healthcare: An Introduction
Christopher M. Hayre, Dave J. Muller, and Marcia J. Scherer
Section 2 Contemporary Applications in Healthcare
2. Therapy through Play: Advancing the Role of Robotics in Paediatric Rehabilitation
S. Lindsay, L. Rampertab, and C.J. Curran
3. Alzheimer’s and mHealth: Regulatory, Privacy and Ethical Considerations
Bonnie Kaplan and Sofia Ranchordás
4. Exergaming for Health and Fitness Application
Maziah Mat Rosly, Hadi Mat Rosly, and Mark Halaki
5. Technology Solutions and Programs to Promote Leisure and Communication Activities with People with Intellectual and
other Disabilities
Giulio E. Lancioni, Nirbhay N. Singh, Mark F. O’Reilly, and Jeff Sigafoos
6. Using Digital Photography to Support the Communication of People with Aphasia, Dementia or Cognitive-Communication
Deficits
Karen Hux and Carly Dinnes
7. Common and Assistive Technology to Support People with Specific Learning Disabilities to Access Healthcare
Dianne Chambers and Sharon Campbell
8. Pervasive and Emerging Technologies and Consumer Motivation
David Banes
9. Feedback-Based Technologies for Adult Physical Rehabilitation
Leanne Hassett and Natalie Allen, Maayken van den Berg
10. Engaging Young Children in Speech and Language Therapy via Videoconferencing
Stuart Ekberg, Sandra Houen, Belinda Fisher, Maryanne Theobald, and Susan Danby
11. Digital Communication and Social Media for People with Communicative and Cognitive Disabilities
Margret Buchholz, Ulrika Ferm, and Kristina Holmgren
12. Mobile Technology to Facilitate Self-Management and Independence among Adolescents and Young Adults with
Disabilities – Best Practices and the State of the Science
Michelle A. Meade and Marisa J. Perera
13. Principles and Practical Uses of Virtual Reality Games as a Physical Therapy Strategy
Lorena Cruz, Felipe Augusto dos Santos Mendes, Silvia Gonçalves Ricci Neri, and Rodrigo Luiz Carregaro
14. Project Career: The Matching Person and Technology Model and Everyday Technology in Action
Deborah Minton, Elaine Sampson, Amanda Nardone, and Callista Stauffer
15. Everyday Communication and Cognition Technologies Jerry K. Hoepner and Thomas W. Sather
16. Mobile Technology in Aphasia Rehabilitation: Current Trends and Lessons Learnt
Caitlin Brandenburg and Emma Power
17. Technology Acceptance, Adoption, and Usability: Arriving at Consistent Terminologies and Measurement Approaches
Lili Liu, Antonio Miguel Cruz, and Adriana Maria Rios Rincon
18. Artificial Intelligence
Hadi Mat Rosly and Maziah Mat Rosly
'This book does have use for the intended readers. Its main utility lies in the comprehensive list of references specifically tied to different areas of research. Researchers looking for a large range of research on one of these topics would find this book a great jumping off point for further reading.' - Alexander Barry, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab
Dr. Hayre is currently a lecturer in diagnostic radiography at the University of Suffolk. He has published both qualitative and quantitative refereed papers in the field of diagnostic radiography. He founded the Journal of Social Science & Allied Health Professions and remains Editor-in-Chief. He is currently writing a book chapter surrounding sustainable practices in medical imaging and is currently a visiting lecturer at the Odisee University in Brussels.
Professor Muller is currently Editor of the CRC series with Professor Marcia Scherer on Rehabilitation Science in Practice. He was founder Editor of the Journal Aphasiology and is currently Editor in Chief of the Journal Disability and Rehabilitation. He has published over forty refereed papers and has been involved either as Series Editor, Editor or author of over fifty books. He is a visiting Professor at the University of Suffolk, United Kingdom.
Marcia Scherer is a rehabilitation psychologist and founding President of the Institute for Matching Person & Technology She is also Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Rochester Medical Center where she received both her Ph.D. and MPH degrees. She is a past member of the National Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research, National Institutes of Health, and is Editor of the journal Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. Dr. Scherer is Fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA). Dr. Scherer has authored, edited, or co-edited nine books and has published over seventy-five articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as thirty book chapters on disability and technology. Her research has been cited more than 4500 times by others.
Purpose. To describe a measure and its performance specific to the relationship of personal factors and subjective well-being (SWB) to the use of assistive technology devices (ATDs). The primary ...hypothesis is that responses to a 33-item personal factors scale and a 12-item SWB scale are good indicators of an individual's predisposition for using, and subsequent match with, a given ATD.
Methods. Data analyses from a number of studies using the 33-item personal factors and the 12-item SWB scales of the Assistive Technology Device Predisposition Assessment with persons of various ages and types of disabilities.
Results. Regardless of type of disability or age of respondent, the ATD PA personal factors and the SWB scales identified important differences in predispositions to use an ATD as well as the subsequent quality of the match of person and device.
Conclusions. A quantifiable relationship exists between the ATD PA's measure of personal factors and the SWB such that it is possible to characterise an individual's predisposition to use a particular ATD. Results also show that the scales are predictive of the quality of the ATD and user match at follow-up. Rehabilitation practitioners who use the ATD PA may achieve enhanced assistive technology service delivery outcomes by using this evidence-based measure.
Integrating current research with the experiences of people with cognitive disabilities, this volume examines how assistive and cognitive support technologies are being harnessed to provide ...assistance for thinking, remembering, and learning. The book vividly describes real-life situations in which cognitively impaired individuals use assistive supports and the advantages and limitations these individuals perceive from their use. It provides information on how cognitively impaired individuals and their families and caregivers can select the most appropriate technologies from a wide array of accommodations and resources, including individualized protocols of different forms of support to facilitate optimal functioning. The text offers practitioners a comprehensive and systematic process for ensuring their clients' effective application and utilization of this technology. This book will also provide insight for users of assistive technology and their families and caregivers to ensure optimal technology use.
The area of assistive technology has a long history of technological ingenuity and innovation. In order to ensure that the benefits of assistive technology are equitably distributed across the ...population and life course, it is necessary to adopt a systemic approach to the area. We describe examples of systems thinking and non-systems thinking across 10 Ps. These Ps are People (or users, as the primary beneficiaries of assistive technology), Policy, Products, Personnel, Provision (as key strategic drivers at systems level); and Procurement, Place, Pace, Promotion and Partnership (as key situational factors for systems). Together these Ps should constitute a framework for an "open" system that can evolve and adapt, that empowers users, inter-connects key components and locates these in the reality of differing contexts. The adoption of a stronger systems thinking perspective within the assistive technology field should allow for more equitable, more resilient and more sustainable assistive technology across high, middle- and low-income contexts and countries.
Implications for Rehabilitation
The progress of assistive technology provison has been hampered by disconnected initiatives and activities and this needs to be corrected.
Systems thinking is a way of thinking about the connections between things and how these are influenced by contextual and other factors.
By encouraging the providers and users of assitive technology to think more systemically we can provide a more cohesive and resilient systems.
The user experience is the central component of systems thinking in assistive technologies.
This special issue focuses on assistive technologies for cognition/cognitive support technologies as well as the ways in which individuals are assessed and trained in their use. We provide eleven ...diverse articles that give information on products, why they are used and not used, and best professional practices in service provision. Our goal is to highlight a broad topic that has received limited research investigation and offer an insight into how different countries and programs are promoting access to and use of assistive technologies for cognition/cognitive support technologies.
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