Ambient Assisted Living: Benefits of the Technology Development

Technological advances allow people living with disabilities to integrate into different activities. This article aims to analyze research related to assistive technologies and visual impairment. The most important published papers, in this field were identified. This study analyzes 297 documents, of which 26 documents are published by two Latin American countries. This research presents publications related to visual impairment and technology, in the future it is planned to carry out a thorough and more extensive investigation on the subject.