All about Assistive Technology
From: IEEE The Institute - 06/2017
By: Amanda Davis

Engineers are developing robots, tools, and prosthetics to help people with
disabilities explore the world around them. IEEE resources to get members up
to speed include videos, publications, and standards.

Source:
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/ns/quarterly_issues/tijun17.pdf - page 14

Videos:
Accessing the Future - 05/11/2017 (22:08)
https://ieeetv.ieee.org/conference-highlights/accessing-the-future

Extreme Bionics: The End of Disability - 08/28/2015 (6:21)
https://ieeetv.ieee.org/ieeetv-specials/ieee-sxsw-2015-extreme-bionics-the-end-of-disability

Publications:
IEEE Potentials - The Hope of Assistive Technology
http://resna.stanford.edu/Tidbits/2017/ieee-potentials.txt

Pervasive Assistant Technology for People with Dementia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5168821

Disrupting the World of Disability: The Next Generation of Assistive
  Technologies and Rehabilitation Practices
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/articles/28008360
http://www.pubpdf.com/pub/28008360/Disrupting-the-world-of-Disability-The-Next-Generation-of-Assistive-Technologies-and-Rehabilitation-

The Soft Robotics Toolkit: Strategies for Overcoming Obstacles to the Wide
  Dissemination of Soft-Robotic Hardware
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7862175

Technical Committees:
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s Technical Committee on Wearable
  Robotics
http://www.ieee-ras.org/wearable-robotics

Technical Committee on Haptics
http://www.worldhaptics.org

Technical Committee on Companion Technology 
http://www.ieeesmc.org/technical-activities/human-machine-systems/companion-technology

IEEE International Conference on Companion Technology
http://icct2017.companion-technology.org

Standards:
IEEE P1622.5 Standard for Election Systems Usability and Accessibility
http://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/1622.5.html

IEEE P2650 Standard for Enabling Mobile Device Platforms to Be Used as Prescreening Audiometric System
http://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/2650.html