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ICTs and disability: exploring the human dimensions of technological engagement.

Technology offers the potential to free disabled people from dependence on others by enabling them to participate more fully in society and to take an active and creative role in their own embodiment. Technical familiarity and competence engender confidence in the ability to manipulate and control t...

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Published in:Technology & Disability Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 195 - 205
Main Author: Seymour W
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. 2005
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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        affil: Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia, Magill Campus, Magill, SA 5072, Australia; wendy.seymour@unisa.edu.au
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          Computers and Computerization Utilization
          Persons with Disabilities
          Attitude to Computers
          Attitude Measures
          Life Experiences
          South Australia
          Qualitative Studies
          Child
          Adolescence
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Human
          Child: 6-12 years
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
      ab: Technology offers the potential to free disabled people from dependence on others by enabling them to participate more fully in society and to take an active and creative role in their own embodiment. Technical familiarity and competence engender confidence in the ability to manipulate and control the environment and enhance self-esteem. But many studies demonstrate that technology is under-utilized or abandoned by people with disabilities, often after considerable investment of time and material resources. Past investigations have focused on the function of the technology and the skills of the user. This study shifts the focus of inquiry to less concrete dimensions of engagement: to the self-identity of the user and to the broad dimensions of global capitalism within which the user-technology relationship is negotiated in order to explore the factors that shape decisions to adopt or to abandon technologies.
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