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Using ICT and Quality of Life: Comparing Persons with and Without Disabilities

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2016)

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Abstract

Calls to promote greater participations of persons with disabilities in society usually deal with the use of various IC-based technologies. Many of initiatives also deal with the quality of life (QoL) of those persons and discuss possible impacts of ICT use on that quality. By comparing persons with and without disabilities, this study examined the extent to which (1) individuals used IC-based technologies, (2) their QoL was improved due to the use of those technologies, and (3) this use (USE) was related to that QoL improvement (IQoL). It was found that both USE and IQoL were lower for persons with disabilities, and that correlation between USE and IQoL was stronger for those persons. The study examines the role of education and its potential to improve the QoL for persons with disabilities as a result of better use of ICTs.

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    Regarding e-government, its role in this study was mainly restricted to applying for or obtaining of official documents. As several services in this e-sector require digital signature, appropriate training to deal with this signature may be needed [7].

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (project “Improving the Quality and Accessibility of Education in Modernization Processes in Serbia”), and SAGA and Open Society Fund (project “Role of ICT in Development of an Inclusive Society”).

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  1. Institute for Educational Research, Dobrinjska 11/III, P.O.B. 546, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia

    Djordje M. Kadijevich

  2. Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Gordana Odovic

  3. Art Academy, Alfa BK University, Belgrade, Serbia

    Dejan Maslikovic

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  2. Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Bühler

  3. Masaryk University , Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

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Kadijevich, D.M., Odovic, G., Maslikovic, D. (2016). Using ICT and Quality of Life: Comparing Persons with and Without Disabilities. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9758. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_18

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