IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsoctx/v9y2019i4p69-d276293.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Convergence and Mainstreaming of Integrated Home Technologies for People with Disability

Author

Listed:
  • Natasha Layton

    (Department of Health Professions, Swinburne University, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia)

  • Emily Steel

    (School of Health and Wellbeing, The University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich, QLD 4305, Australia)

Abstract

If human rights begin in small places close to home, technologies that enable people with disability to access and control their home environments are an important human rights instrument. Smart homes exemplify recent advances in design, building construction, and integration of technologies within the built environment. They draw on multiple social and technical disciplines that share a broad vision but lack a common language, creating ambiguity and limiting the usefulness of the evidence base in determining optimal ways to integrate technologies and housing design to meet diverse needs. The convergence of mainstream and assistive technologies offers the potential of accessible and affordable strategies for inclusion, but also risks further exclusion of marginalized sections of the population. Coordination of efforts might accelerate translation of knowledge and diffusion of innovations into the practices of planning, designing, building, and sustaining housing that promotes independent living. This conceptual paper reviews the theoretical frameworks and terminology from fields of research involved in the design and use of technologies in the home environment to enable people with disability and older people. It considers approaches to design and interventions that could inform policies and practices as well as further research and development activities.

Suggested Citation

  • Natasha Layton & Emily Steel, 2019. "The Convergence and Mainstreaming of Integrated Home Technologies for People with Disability," Societies, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-11, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsoctx:v:9:y:2019:i:4:p:69-:d:276293
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/9/4/69/pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/9/4/69/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Daniel J. Mallinson & Saahir Shafi, 2022. "Smart home technology: Challenges and opportunities for collaborative governance and policy research," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 39(3), pages 330-352, May.
    2. Linda Nierling & Maria Maia, 2020. "Assistive Technologies: Social Barriers and Socio-Technical Pathways," Societies, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-15, May.
    3. Yi-Kyung Hong & Ze-Yu Wang & Ji Young Cho, 2022. "Global Research Trends on Smart Homes for Older Adults: Bibliometric and Scientometric Analyses," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(22), pages 1-24, November.
    4. Katarina Baudin & Maria Mullersdorf & Angelina Sundstrom & Christine Gustafsson, 2020. "The Policies of Provision of Assistive and Welfare Technology—A Literature Review," Societies, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-16, February.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsoctx:v:9:y:2019:i:4:p:69-:d:276293. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.