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user/client and assistive solution. Because the assistive solution represents the outcome of
a user-driven process aimed toward the improvement of individual functioning, it can be
considered as a mediator of quality of life and well-being in a specific context of use. For
these reasons, it is important to underscore that the assistive solution does not coincide
with AT because the first one is a complex system in which psycho-socio-environmental
factors and AT interact in a nonlinear way by reducing activity limitations and participation
restrictions by means of one or more technologies.
The definition of ATA represents the core definition of this handbook, summarizing the
properties of the ATA process. All of the chapters in the section first refer to this definition
and follow a guiding reference model (see Figure I.1).
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