Medical Instrumentation: Accessibility and Usability Considerations

Motivation

This book was motivated by the recognition that as we move forward into the 21st century, we have an opportunity - and responsibility - to make medical instrumentation as accessible and usable as possible for all persons, including older adults and a diversity of people with disabilities. To do so requires an evolutionary process on many levels: good science on understanding human-technology interfaces for a diversity of devices and people; educational materials and design guidelines that can help train future product designers and engineers in accessible design principles and processes; multidisciplinary teams passionate about social policy change that can make access to such technology a priority, and so on. This book is intended to capture current knowledge and thought in the areas most relevant to this aim, and to serve as a resource that will help push this process forward.