References
- Torrens G. Assistive technology product to universal design: a way forward. Des All [Internet]. 2012;182–205. Available from: https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/15736
- Assistive technology-Gov.UK [Internet]. Assist. Technol. Defin. safe use. 2017 [cited 2017 Aug 3]. Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/assistive-technology-definition-and-safe-use/assistive-technology-definition-and-safe-use
- The Economist. Moving from the margins Mainstreaming persons with disabilities in Pakistan. 2014.
- Lanutti JNL, Medola FO, Gonçalves DD, et al. The significance of manual wheelchairs: a comparative study on male and female users. Procedia Manuf. 2015;3:6079–6085.
- Newell AF, Inclusive design or assistive technology. In: Keates S, Lebbon C, Coleman R, et al. editors. Inclusive design. Design for the whole population. London: Springer Verlag GmbH; 2003. p. 172–181. Available from: http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/978-1-4419-7031-2
- Ripat J, Woodgate R. The intersection of culture, disability and assistive technology. Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol. 2011;6:87–96. Available from: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/17483107.2010.507859
- Moalosi R, Popovic V, Hickling-Hudson A. Culture-orientated product design. Int J Technol Des Educ. 2010;20:175–190.
- Chiu T, Arbor A. Cultural differences in aesthetic preferences: does product-to-context match matter? Int Assoc Soc Des Res. 2017.
- Hofstede G. Culture’s consequences. Thousand Oaks: Sage; 2001.
- Matsumoto D, Juang L. Culture and psychology. 5th ed. Wadsworth Cengage Learning; 2013.
- Berry JW, Poortinga YH, Breugelmans SM, et al. Cross-Cultural Psychology. 3rd, edition. Cambridge University Press; 2012.
- Williams R. Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society [Internet]. New York. 1983. Available from: http://books.google.com/books?id=S6U03FvYZYkC&pgis=1
- Paratte P, Huer MB, Hourcade JJ. Using assistive technology focus groups with families across cultures. Educ Train Ment Retard Dev Disabil. 2003;38:429–440.
- Markus HR, Kitayama S. Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychol Rev. 1991;98:224–253.
- Masuda T, Nisbett RE. Attending holistically versus analytically: comparing the context sensitivity of Japanese and Americans. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2001;81:922–934.
- Nisbett RPD. The geography of thought [Internet]. NewYork: The Free Press; 2003. Available from: https://stg.ibs-bw.de/aDISWeb/app;jsessionid=08FAAACAF5D4B696DD9DB3B6F1400436
- Nisbett RE, Choi I, Peng K, et al. Culture and systems of thought: Holistic versus analytic cognition. Psychol Rev. 2001;108:291–310.
- Nisbett RE, Masuda T. Culture and point of view. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2003;100:11163–11170.
- Kastanakis MN, Voyer BG. The effect of culture on perception and cognition: a conceptual framework. J Bus Res. 2014;67:425–433.
- Goto SG, Ando Y, Huang C, et al. Cultural differences in the visual processing of meaning: detecting incongruities between background and foreground objects using the N400. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2010; 5:242–253.
- Chua HF, Boland JE, Nisbett RE. Cultural variation in eye movements during scene perception. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2005;102:12629–12633.
- Shinohara K, Wobbrock JO. In the shadow of misperception. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2011;705:Available from: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1978942.1979044
- Goffman E. Stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity. Prentice-Hall, Inc.; 1963.
- Bispo R, Branco V. Designing out stigma - The role of objects in the construction of disabled people´s identity. Dare to Desire 6th Int. Des. Emot. Conf 2008; 1–5.
- The Oxford English Dictionary. Stigma. The Oxford English Dictionary [Internet]. Oxford University Press. 2018. Available from: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/stigma
- Stockton G. Stigma: addressing negative associations in product design. 2009; 1–6.
- Parette P, Scherer M. Assistive technology use and stigma. Educ Train Dev Disabil. 2004;39:217–226. Available from: http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&CSC=Y&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&D=psyc4&AN=2004-17998-003%5Cnhttp://sfxhosted.exlibrisgroup.com/galway?sid=OVID:psycdb&id=pmid:&id=doi:&issn=1547-0350&isbn=&volume=39&issue=3&spage=217&pages=217-226&date=2004&title=Educa
- WHO. World report on disability - Summary. World Rep Disabil. 2011;2011:1–23.
- Sun W, Wilson MG, Schreiber D, et al. Ethical challenges related to assistive product access for older adults and adults living with a disability: a scoping review protocol. Syst Rev. 2017;6:24.
- BusinessWire. Disabled & elderly assistive technologies market - global opportunity analysis and industry forecast, 2017-2023: research and markets. Business Wire [Internet] 2017;[cited 2017 Dec 20]. Available from: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170824005495/en/Disabled-Elderly-Assistive-Technologies-Market—Global
- Routhier F, Vincent C, Desrosiers J, et al. Mobility of wheelchair users: a proposed performance assessment framework. Disabil Rehabil. 2003;25:19–34. Available from: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/dre.25.1.19.34
- WHO. Guidelines on the provision of manual wheelchairs in less resourced settings [Internet]. World Heal. Organ. 2008. Available from: http://www.who.int/disabilities/publications/technology/wheelchairguidelines/en/index.html
- WHO. Assistive devices/technologies: What WHO is Doing [Internet]. 2016 [cited 2017 Dec 20]. Available from: http://www.who.int/disabilities/technology/en/
- Lucintel [Internet]. Glob. Wheel. Mark. by Prod. Categ. Des. Funct. end user, Reg. 2017-2022. 2017 [cited 2017 Dec 20]. Available from: http://www.lucintel.com/global-wheelchair-market-2017.aspx
- Market research reports Inc. [Internet]. World Wheel. Mark. to Grow 2.8% Annu. from 2014 to 2018 | Mark. Res. Blog. 2017 [cited 2017 Dec 21]. Available from: https://www.marketresearchreports.com/blog/2014/05/15/world-wheelchair-market-grow-28-annually-2014-2018
- Pape TLB, Kim J, Weiner B. The shaping of individual meanings assigned to assistive technology: a review of personal factors. Disabil Rehabil. 2002;24:5–20.
- Gooberman-Hill R, Ebrahim S. Making decisions about simple interventions: older people’s use of walking aids. Age Ageing. 2007;36:569–573.
- Oliver M. The politics of disablement. Palgrave MacMillan; 1990.
- Swain J, Colin SF, Cameron C. Controversial Issues in a Disabling Society. Open University Press; 2003.
- Muller W. Order and meaning in design. Lemma Publishers; 2001.
- Evans M, Sommerville S. Seeing is believing: the challenge of product semantics in the curriculum. DS 43 Proc. E&PDE 2007, … [Internet] 2007;1–6. Available from: http://www.designsociety.org/download-publication/28381/seeing_is_believing_the_challenge_of_product_semantics_in_the_curriculum
- Crilly N, Moultrie J, Clarkson PJ. Seeing things: consumer response to the visual domain in product design. Des Stud. 2004;25:547–577.
- Fiske J. Introduction to communication studies. 2nd ed. Routledge; 1990.
- Vihma S. On actual semantic and aesthetic interaction. . 2003; 1–7.
- McDonagh D, Bruseberg A, Haslam C. Visual product evaluation: exploring users' emotional relationships with products. Appl Ergon. 2002;33:231–240.
- Lu W, Čok V, Zhu R. Study on cultural differences of users’ perception towards shape characteristics. 2014;1135–1146:
- Burkette AP. Language and material culture. Amsterdam, The Netherlands,: John Benjamins Publishing Company; 2015.
- Dant T. Material civilization: things and society. Br J Sociol. 2006;57:289–308.
- Miodownik M. Stuff matters: exploring the marvelous materials that shape our man-made world. 2014; Available from: https://books.google.com/books?id=_5yUAwAAQBAJ&pgis=1
- Dant T. The “pragmatics” of material interaction. J Consum Cult. 2008;8:11–33.
- Anderson S, Kaiser Gladwin K, Mayo N. Considering material culture in assessing assistive devices: “breaking up the rhythm”. Societies. 2016;6:14. Available from: http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/6/2/14
- Krippendorff K, Butter R. Product semantics: exploring the symbolic qualities of form. Innovation. 1984;3:8. Available from: http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=asc_papers
- Krippendorff K. The semantic turn: a new foundation for design. Artifact. CRC Press; 2007. Available from: http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/artifact/article/view/1300
- Steffen D. Design semantics of innovation: product language as a reflection on technical innovation and socio-cultural change. 2010; Available from: http://www2.uiah.fi/sefun/DSIU_papers/DSIU_Steffen_Design Semantics of Innovation.pdf
- Demirbilek O, Sener B. Product design, semantics and emotional response. Ergonomics. 2003;46:1346–1360. Available from: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140130310001610874
- Hughes RS. The conceptual structure of product semantic models. Brunel University; 1999. Available from: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4969
- Artacho-Ramirez MA, Diego-Mas JA, Alcaide-Marzal J. Influence of the mode of graphical representation on the perception of product aesthetic and emotional features: an exploratory study. Int J Ind Ergon. 2008;38:942–952.
- Wei D, Neel S, Robinson PAB. Is a picture really worth a thousand words?:-on the role of images in e-commerce. Proc 7th ACM Int Conf Web Search Data Min. - WSDM ’14. 2014;633–641. Available from: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2556226
- Lomay V, Hinkebein J. Cultural considerations when providing rehabilitation services to American Indians. Rehabil Psychol. 2006;51:36–42. Available from: http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=reference&D=paovfth&NEWS=N&AN=00001344-200602000-00006
- Hammell KW. Sacred texts: a sceptical exploration of the assumptions underpinning theories of occupation. Can J Occup Ther. 2009;76:6.
- Norman DA. Emotional design: why we love (or hate) everyday things. 1st ed. New York: Basic Books; 2004.
- Ajani T, Stork E. Creating a semantic differential scale for measuring users’ perceptions and attitudes toward emerging technologies. Proc Conf Inf Syst Appl Res. 2013;1–7. Available from: www.aitp-edsig.org
- Osgood CE, Suci GJ, Tannenbaum PH. The measurement of meaning. 2nd ed. Urbana, Chicago and London: University of Illinois Press; 1957.
- Robson C, McCartan K. Real world research. 4th ed. London: Wiley; 2016.
- Martin B, Hanington B. Universal Methods of Design 2012;
- Petiot JF, Yannou B. Measuring consumer perceptions for a better comprehension, specification and assessment of product semantics. Int J Ind Ergon. 2004;33:507–525.
- Yusoff R, Mohd Janor R. Generation of an interval metric scale to measure attitude. SAGE Open. 2014;4:
- Osgood CE. Semantic differential technique in the comparative study of cultures. Am Anthropol. 2009;66:171–200.
- Heise DR. The semantic differential and attitude research. Attitude Meas. 1970;235–253.
- Ciabuca A. The development of a semantic differential scale for assessing the perceived image of citizens about Romanian Police Forces. Procedia - Soc Behav Sci. 2015;187:28–33.
- Alcántara E, Artacho MA, González JC, et al. Application of product semantics to footwear design. Part I - Identification of footwear semantic space applying differential semantics. Int J Ind Ergon. 2005;35:713–725.
- Hsu SH, Chuang MC, Chang CC. A semantic differential study of designers’ and users’ product form perception. Int J Ind Ergon. 2000;25:375–391.
- Aros M, Aros NH, Narvaez G. The semantic differential for the discipline of design: a tool for the product evaluation. 13th International Congress on Project Engineering. Badajoz. 2009;422–433:
- Davis M, Jackson R, Smith T, et al. The hearing aid effect in African American and Caucasian males as perceived by female judges of the same race. Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch. 1999;30:165–172.
- Ajani T, Stork E. Emerging Technologies: Public Health Educators’ Knowledge and Attitudes towards Global Sensor Networks 2014;5. Available from: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84865650262&partnerID=40&md5=5b86ac5d0f1ed879577e79a75116b9ca
- Fellinghauer BAG, Roth A, Bugari K, et al. Construct validity, test-retest reliability, and internal consistency of the Photo Elicitation Semantic Differential Scale (PESD) in disability studies. J Dev Phys Disabil. 2011;23:257–265.
- Carneiro L, Oliveira T, Noriega P, et al. Can the context stigmatize the assistive technology? a preliminary study using virtual environments. Adv Ergon Des. 2016;289–298. Available from: https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/51854981/Advances_in_Ergonomics_in_Design.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1517938138&Signature=4v%2F33viDPJSyTo0mBRdDt8LQzV0%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B filename%3DClothing_Cust
- Loughborough University [Internet]. Ethics Approv. (Human Particip. Sub-Committee. 2018 [cited 2017 Aug 30]. Available from: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/committees/ethics-approvals-human-participants/
- Krippendorff K. On the proposition that “Deisgn is making sense (of things)”. Design Issues. 1989;5:9–39.
- Owen MJ. Simple canonical views. Proc Br Mach Vis Conf 2005. 2005;85:1–85. 10. Available from: http://www.bmva.org/bmvc/2005/papers/paper-264.html
- Elliott AC, Woodward WA. Statistical analysis quick reference guidebook: with SPSS examples. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2007.
- Author 2019 - Figshare
- Cook AM, Polgar JM. Assistive technology: principles & practices. 4th ed. Missouri: Elsevier Mosby; 2015. Available from: https://www.advantageceus.com/sites/advantageceus/uploads/documents/Courses/Assistive_Technology/AT-_Module_1-_Web_Course.pdf
- Moon H, Park J, Kim S. The importance of an innovative product design on customer behavior: development and validation of a scale. J Prod Innov Manag. 2015;32:224–232.
- Malhotra NK. Marketing research- an applied orientation. 6th Editio. Yagan S, editor. Pearson; 2010.