Does anyone know of any information on the economic aspects of the
market for assistive devices?
I'm especially interested in determining how price sensitive the
market for assistive products is. The following scenario illustrates
the point.
Suppose there is a market for a type of assistive product, it
doesn't matter what it is, it could be screen readers, head operated
mice etc. Suppose that there are devices that are widely available at
say 1000 currency units. Suppose another device is developed, it is
a perfectly adequate replacement device, but costs say 200 currency
units. What happens, who benefits and are there problems?
In addition to published works, opinions and anecdotes would be
appreciated.
Gareth
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Dr D. G. Evans
Department of Computation, UMIST,
PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD
Tel +44-161-200-3368 Fax +44-161-200-3373
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