Systems thinking for assistive technology: a commentary on the GREAT summit
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17483107.2018.1472306" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17483107.2018.1472306</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2018.1472306" target="_blank" >10.1080/17483107.2018.1472306</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Systems thinking for assistive technology: a commentary on the GREAT summit
Original language description
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.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION-ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
ISSN
1748-3107
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
492-496
UT code for WoS article
000439032400009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85047107178