This article explores the use of a mobile technology platform as experienced by people with disability, their significant other and service providers. An interpretive qualitative study design was adopted involving observations and interviews. The data were analysed using the combined lenses of the social approach to disability and the PHAATE model which represents the factors for consideration in service design for assistive technology. The findings suggest that the adoption of the technology by those in the study could be characterised by a typology of users. The implications of the typology are discussed together with the influencing factors that affected social participation and disability citizenship.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	mobile technology; PHAATE model; disability citizenship; mobile phone; social participation
Research Division:	Philosophy and Religious Studies
Research Group:	Applied ethics
Research Field:	Human rights and justice issues (excl. law)
Objective Division:	Health
Objective Group:	Public health (excl. specific population health)
Objective Field:	Disability and functional capacity
UTAS Author:	Maxwell, H (Dr Hazel Maxwell)
ID Code:	110059
Year Published:	2016
Web of Science® Times Cited:	34
Deposited By:	Health Sciences
Deposited On:	2016-07-12
Last Modified:	2018-02-06
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