Lourenço Jordam Wilson, de Jesus Paulo Alexandre Correia, Schaefer Jones Luís, Canciglieri Junior Osiris
Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol. 2025 May 23:1-14. doi: 10.1080/17483107.2025.2508390.
Assistive Technology (AT) facilitates daily life activities for individuals with disabilities and the elderly, helping them adapt to physical tasks and social interactions with family, friends, and colleagues. Despite its potential to promote autonomy and independence, numerous barriers often hinder AT's integration and accessibility. This research aims to systematically identify and analyse the barriers and challenges that hinder the widespread adoption and accessibility of AT and propose practical solutions to overcome them.
A Systematic Literature Review (RSL) was employed as the primary methodological approach, followed by the application of VOSviewer and Statistica Software to ensure a rigorous analysis of the data and the formation of clusters of barriers, which were subsequently grouped to allow a standardised, didactic exploration and segmented of the similarities between the identified obstacles.
The analysis identified thirteen clusters, the most prevalent in the literature being the "Financial and Knowledge Access Barriers".
This study provides a comprehensive examination of the challenges obstructing the accessibility and implementation of AT, offering targeted strategies to mitigate these barriers and improve the integration of AT for its end users.
辅助技术（AT）有助于残疾人和老年人开展日常生活活动，帮助他们适应体力任务以及与家人、朋友和同事的社交互动。尽管其具有促进自主性和独立性的潜力，但诸多障碍常常阻碍辅助技术的融入和可及性。本研究旨在系统地识别和分析阻碍辅助技术广泛应用和可及性的障碍与挑战，并提出切实可行的解决方案来克服这些障碍。
采用系统文献综述（RSL）作为主要方法，随后应用VOSviewer和Statistica软件，以确保对数据进行严格分析并形成障碍集群，随后对这些集群进行分组，以便对已识别障碍之间的相似性进行标准化、有指导性的探索和细分。
分析确定了13个集群，文献中最普遍的是“财务和知识获取障碍”。
本研究全面审视了阻碍辅助技术可及性和实施的挑战，提供了有针对性的策略来减轻这些障碍，并改善辅助技术对最终用户的融入情况。
