Ch 1: The Person, the environment, and technology: Introduction to the human-tech ladder

Dr. Shah, Key terms from Assistive Technologies and Environmental Interventions in Healthcare

assistive technology (AT)

conceptualized as services and products that aim to support and aid an individual’s ability to engage with the environment, regardless of disability

assistive technology continuum

client-centered

to describe the active and directive role of the client in collaboration with the therapist to problem-solve issues uniquely related to each client’s care

contextual factors

represent the complete background of an individual’s life and living.

what are the 2 components of contextual factors

environmental and personal factors

disability

is the dynamic interaction between an individual (with a health condition) and that individual’s contextual factors (personal or environmental factors)

disability models

are conceptual frameworks that delineate how disability has been regarded by society over centuries

environmental factors

are organized in relationship to the individual’s immediate environment,

what can be consider the immediate environment in environmental factors

physical or material aspects of daily life or societal environment

what is considered to be the societal environment

when one engages at a community, institutional, attitudinal and policy level

environmental intervention (EI)

refers to how the environment can be changed or modified as a part of the AT process

human-tech ladder

is a 5 level visual model which can be used to conceptualize human factors

ex of human factors

personal and environmental factors that interact with technology

technology

any tool — physical, virtual conceptual, or cultural — that helps people make decisions, act, njachieve their goal

what does Carl Rogers add to the definition of technology

that is has 2 components: software and hardware

what is software according to Rogers

aspect consisting of the information base for the tool

what is hardware according to Rogers

aspect consisting of the tool that embodies the technology as a material or physical object

technology and environmental intervention (TEI)

reflects the interactive relationship between technology and environmental factors in the AT process