ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the integration of assistive technologies (AT) into domestic spheres and work-places. It shows that the integration of AT devices, such as signalling devices in homes, is a much more delicate matter and a more complicated process compared to mainstream information and communication technology (ICT) objects. The first phase as described by Silverstone with regard to ICT devices is the 'appropriation phase', or the transaction process of the device, from being a commodity in the market to becoming an object. The next phase in the model of Silverstone is the objectification phase. In the incorporation phase, the focus is on aspects of the internal structure of the household or the workplace for that matter. The last phase, the conversion phase, deals with how the technology is adjusted to the values of the users by the users themselves, and their view of how society is or ought to be.
