Framework for Assistive Technology - Glossary of Terms

Activity
Daily living things that humans learn and are necessary for the culture and society 
Example:
Self-care, your job, social activity.

Assistive Technology System
It consist of an assistive technology device, a human operator who has a disability, and an environment in which the functional activity is to be carried out.

Example:
Hearing assistive technology systems (HATS) are devices that can help you communicate with others. You may also hear them called assistive listening devices. HATS can be used with or without hearing aids or cochlear implants to make it easier to hear.

Contexts
The portion of the HAAT model that includes four major considerations: (1) setting, (2) social context, (3) cultural context, and (4) physical context.

Example:
Enviroment, social activity and culture

Extrinsic Enablers
Assistive Technologies are also known as extrinsic enablers because they provide the basis by which human performance is improved in the presence of disability.
Example:
Activity Output , Processor, and HTI

Allocation
The allocation of functions in any human/device system in which some functions are allocated to the human, some to the device, and some to the personal assistant services.

Example:
Something that is done by a human or technology.

Human Activity Assistive Technology Model
The Human Activity Assistive Technology Model proposes a framework for understanding the place of assistive technologies in the place of the lives of those with disabilities. It is made of four components: the human, the activity, the assistive technology and the context.

Example:
Each component must be considered both individually and with the others with considering, designing, selecting, implementing, and evaluating an appropriate assistive technology device.

Life roles
The position you play in society.

Example:
The things that we do or what makes us such as actions, and occupational performance.

Occupation
Thing that we do in order to make a living.

Example:
Our jobs, school , teacher , doctors etc.


Performances Areas
Activities of daily living, work and productive activities and play and leisure.

Example:
Activities of daily living including dressing, hygiene, grooming, bathing, eating, personal device care, communication, health maintenance, socialization, taking medications, sexual impression, responding to an emergence, and mobility.

Tasks
The things that humans do complete to produce the functional outcome of the activity. 

Example:

The activity of make a to do list and actually carrying out the t