Abstract
The purpose of the study was to investigate the experiences of using assistive technology between individuals with severe visual impairments during their postgraduate studies. All data was collected by using an semi-structured questionnaire and processing in-depth interview, in other words, qualitative research was utilized in this study. All the interviewees in this study were severe visual impairments who have or had studied for their doctor's or master's degrees in Taiwan or studied abroad from 2001 to 2010. The findings were as follows: 1. The experiences of using AT devices including visual, auditory and tactual interfaces; the auditory interfaces had the highest utilizative rate for all the interviewees, in sequence were tactual and visual ones, visual AT ranked the last as a result of visual disabilities. 2. According to the opinions of all interviewees, the experiences of AT services could focuse on six aspects: (1) availability of devices, (2) AT evaluation, (3) AT maintenance, (4) training to use AT, (5) AT ownership, and (6) availability of AT information. Finally, concrete suggestions were made according to this results of this study.