Mapping Input Technology to Ability

As Europe becomes greyer and thus more reliant on health support, smart healthcare applications will play an increasingly important role in dayto-day life. These technologies will both deliver significant improvements in health care and simultaneously have higher requirements of user interactivity. This will involve both careful and attentive presentations of information and appropriate and efficient affordances for user input. Key to the use of these technologies is the ability of the end-users to communicate their needs, wants and internal states both to the support systems and with the technology itself. From this perspective we can assert accessibility as a parameter in health care system design. In a larger context, more than just interacting with health care systems and providers is the issue of accessibility in an increasingly ‘wired’ world. So accessibility to computers implies providing support for disabled to communicate needs and ABSTRACT