Glasses, contacts, a cane, prosthetic leg, wheelchairs. Those are all assistive because they help an organism without changing them.
Assistive helps someone while adaptive changes someone. ex. A rod on a broken leg is adaptive when contacts are assistive.
Assistive Technology Industry Association was created in 1998.
Assistive devices include:cartshoists and liftslift tables
Assistive mobile devices include canes, crutches, walkers, and wheelchairs.
A robot
Adaptive changes the object and assistive helps it without changing it
It is not possible to enable MAC OS X assistive technologies programmatically. The preference for assistive devices in inside the admin sandbox.
Assistive mobile devices are tools designed to improve the mobility and stability of persons who have difficulty moving independently.
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Assistive robots perform their task(s) by people pointing lasers at objects, as well as voice commands.
Assistive bioengineering is technology designed to help organisms without changing them permanently. Ex. glasses, wheelchairs, hearing aids...
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