Skills vs. Abilities

  • Authors:
  • Grigori Evreinov

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Tampere,

  • Venue:
  • ICCHP '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A spectrum of human abilities, which people use to communicate and socially interact with others, is narrow enough (Table 1). Moreover, even basic human abilities (sensory-motor or/and cognitive) can be lost due to an accident or an illness. Nevertheless, the key issue is not how many different tools are needed to solve a specific problem but whether a person desires to be socially included [1, 2, 4, 7, 12, 14]. Social inclusion aims to reduce inequality between the least advantaged groups and communities and the rest of society. Nevertheless, the inclusion cannot be achieved when a target group or an individual person has a lack of skills to meet social challenges and opportunities.