Rehabilitation culture and its impact on technology: unpacking practical conditions for ultrabilitation.

CONCLUSION: Advancing the idea and project of ultrabilitation must be grounded in a nuanced understanding of actual rehabilitation practice and the norms of broader society, which can be gained from engaging with adjacent literatures and by conducting further research on technology use in rehabilitation contexts. Implications for rehabilitation "Assistive" technologies can be conceptually re-imagined as "ultrabilitative" technologies, expanding their utility from recovery to enhancement and flourishing. Actual development and use of ultrabilitative technology is both a technical and psychosocial challenge, and its success depends on the cultural context in which technology is situated. Further empirical research is needed on the ways in which rehabilitation culture and the norms of broader society might impact or even inhibit the use of ultrabilitative technology. PMID: 30731045 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research