Consumer and Lifestyle
Advances in medical technologies and clinical practice book series · 2014
Consuming is an important aspect of our lives. It is part of our lifestyle. People with disabilities and the elderly, however, face problems in everyday transactions in shops, ATMs, vending machines, etc. This chapter focuses on presenting the potential technological applications and suggested policies that might help to overcome many of those problems. Issues and technologies related with the shopping experience, consuming services, using ATMs and vending machines, and also related lifestyle trends that might affect accessibility are presented and analyzed in order to provide the reader with the big picture on how accessibility solutions could become mainstream and used by greater audiences.