BACKGROUND
There has been a rapid growth in the literature on the design and evaluation of assistive technologies for blind and partially sighted people, yet there is a lack of a comprehensive analysis of the existing literature on the classification of immediate-, short-, medium-, and long-term psychosocial impact of assistive technologies on the quality of life of blind and partially sighted people.
OBJECTIVE
This scoping review aims to identify and synthesise the existing literature on the psychosocial impact of assistive technologies on the quality of life of blind and partially sighted people.
METHODS
Searches will be conducted across seven electronic research databases - CINAHL (EBSCO), PsycINFO (EBSCO), ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar (first 100 records). Data will be extracted for author(s), year of publication, country of origin, purpose, population, methodology, concepts of interest, outcomes, and key findings relating to the scoping review objectives. The findings will present a descriptive synthesis of the search results.
RESULTS
The database search was conducted in July 2024. The database search identified a total of 1,145 records. It is anticipated that the study findings will be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal by the end of September 2024.
CONCLUSIONS
This study will provide a synthesis of the recent body of work on the psychosocial impact of assistive technologies for blind and partially sighted people and recommendations for researchers and designers interested in this research area.
CLINICALTRIAL
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