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Design and the Digital Divide
Insights from 40 Years in Computer Support for Older and Disabled People
Häftad, 2011
377 kr
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Demographic trends and increasing support costs means that good design for older and disabled people is an economic necessity, as well as a moral imperative. Alan Newell has been described as "a visionary who stretches the imagination of all of us" and "truly ahead of his time." This monograph …
Patient-Centered Design of Cognitive Assistive Technology for Traumatic Brain Injury Telerehabilitation
Av Elliot Cole
Häftad, 2013
377 kr
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Computer software has been productive in helping individuals with cognitive disabilities. Personalizing the user interface is an important strategy in designing software for these users, because of the barriers created by conventional user interfaces for the cognitively disabled. Cognitive …
Fieldwork for Healthcare
Case Studies Investigating Human Factors in Computing Systems
Av Dominic Furniss, Ann Blandford m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
455 kr
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Performing fieldwork in healthcare settings is significantly different from fieldwork in other domains and it presents unique challenges to researchers. Whilst results are reported in research papers, the details of how to actually perform these fieldwork studies are not. This is the first of two …
Fieldwork for Healthcare
Guidance for Investigating Human Factors in Computing Systems
Av Dominic Furniss, Rebecca Randell m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
455 kr
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Conducting fieldwork for investigating technology use in healthcare is a challenging undertaking, and yet there is little in the way of community support and guidance for conducting these studies. There is a need for better knowledge sharing and resources to facilitate learning. This is the second …
Designed Technologies for Healthy Aging
Häftad, 2015
511 kr
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Designed Technologies for Healthy Aging identifies and presents a variety of contemporary technologies to support older adults’ abilities to perform everyday activities. Efforts of industry, laboratories, and learning institutions are documented under four major categories: social connections, …
Clear Speech
Technologies that Enable the Expression and Reception of Language
Häftad, 2016
377 kr
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Approximately 10% of North Americans have some communication disorder. These can be physical as in cerebral palsy and Parkinson's disease, cognitive as in Alzheimer's disease and dementia generally, or both physical and cognitive as in stroke. In fact, deteriorations in language are often the early …
Body Tracking in Healthcare
Av Kenton O'Hara, Cecily Morrison m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
511 kr
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Within the context of healthcare, there has been a long-standing interest in understanding the posture and movement of the human body. Gait analysis work over the years has looked to articulate the patterns and parameters of this movement both for a normal healthy body and in a range of …
Assistive Technology Design for Intelligence Augmentation
Häftad, 2016
567 kr
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Assistive Technology Design for Intelligence Augmentation presents a series of frameworks, perspectives, and design guidelines drawn from disciplines spanning urban design, artificial intelligence, sociology, and new forms of collaborative work, as well as the author's experience in designing …
Human Factors in Healthcare
A Field Guide to Continuous Improvement
Av Avi Parush
Häftad, 2017
567 kr
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Have you ever experienced the burden of an adverse event or a near-miss in healthcare and wished there was a way to mitigate it? This book walks you through a classic adverse event as a case study and shows you how.It is a practical guide to continuously improving your healthcare environment, …
Zero-Effort Technologies
Considerations, Challenges, and Use in Health, Wellness, and Rehabilitation, Second Edition
Av Jennifer Boger, Victoria Young m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
567 kr
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This book introduces zero-effort technologies (ZETs), an emerging class of technologies that require little or no effort from the people who use them. ZETs use advanced computing techniques, such as computer vision, sensor fusion, decision-making and planning, machine learning, and the Internet of …
Interactive Technologies and Autism, Second Edition
Av Julie A. Kientz, Gillian R. Hayes m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
679 kr
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This book provides an in-depth review of the historical and state-of-the-art use of technology by and for individuals with autism. The design, development, deployment, and evaluation of interactive technologies for use by and with individuals with autism have been rapidly increasing over the last …
AgeTech, Cognitive Health, and Dementia
Av Andrew Sixsmith, Judith Sixsmith m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
567 kr
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This book explores the ways in which AgeTech can contribute to healthy cognitive aging and support the independence of people with dementia. Technology can play a key role in supporting the health, independence, and well-being of older adults, particularly as a response to rapid worldwide …
Research Advances in ADHD and Technology
Av Franceli L. Cibrian, Gillian R. Hayes m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
567 kr
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most prevalent childhood psychiatric condition, with estimates of more than 5% of children affected worldwide, and has a profound public health, personal, and family impact. At the same time, a multitude of adults, both diagnosed and …
Ending Medicine’s Chronic Dysfunction
Tools and Standards for Medical Decision Making
Av Lawrence L. Weed, Lincoln Weed
Häftad, 2021
623 kr
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This book describes an overlooked solution to a long-standing problem in health care. The problem is an informational supply chain that is unnecessarily dependent on the minds of doctors for assembling patient data and medical knowledge in clinical decision making. That supply chain function is …
Brain–Computer Interfaces
Neurorehabilitation of Voluntary Movement after Stroke and Spinal Cord Injury
Av Cesar Marquez-Chin, Naaz Kapadia-Desai m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
567 kr
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Stroke and spinal cord injury often result in paralysis with serious negative consequences to the independence and quality of life of those who sustain them. For these individuals, rehabilitation provides the means to regain lost function. Rehabilitation following neurological injuries has …
Autonomy and Independence
Aging in an Era of Technology
Av Lili Liu, Christine Daum m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
567 kr
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This book looks at how AgeTech can support the autonomy and independence of people as they grow older. The authors challenge readers to reflect on the concepts of autonomy and independence not as absolutes but as experiences situated within older adults’ social connections and environments. Eleven …
Technology and Disability
50 Years of Trace R&D Center Contributions and Lessons Learned
Av Gregg Vanderheiden, Jonathan Lazar m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
551 kr
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This book outlines the development of the Trace R&D Center as an institution for furthering accessible and assistive technologies. The book walks readers through the Center’s nascent attempts to solve individual challenges with augmentative communication devices through contemporary efforts to …
Technology and Disability
50 Years of Trace R&D Center Contributions and Lessons Learned
Av Gregg Vanderheiden, Jonathan Lazar m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
551 kr
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This book outlines the development of the Trace R&D Center as an institution for furthering accessible and assistive technologies. The book walks readers through the Center’s nascent attempts to solve individual challenges with augmentative communication devices through contemporary efforts to …
Supportive Smart Homes
Their Role in Aging in Place
Av Frank Knoefel, Bruce Wallace m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
623 kr
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Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age in place. This book explores how recent improvements in integrated home technologies have the potential to address those challenges. The book considers how embedded …
Supportive Smart Homes
Their Role in Aging in Place
Av Frank Knoefel, Bruce Wallace m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
623 kr
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Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age in place. This book explores how recent improvements in integrated home technologies have the potential to address those challenges. The book considers how embedded …
Sensory Accommodation Framework for Technology
Bridging Sensory Processing to Social Cognition
Av LouAnne Boyd
Inbunden, 2024
442 kr
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This book provides a thorough introduction to the many facets of designing technologies for autism, with a particular focus on optimizing visual attention frameworks. This book is designed to provide a detailed overview of several aspects of technology for autism. Each Chapter illustrates different …
Sensory Accommodation Framework for Technology
Bridging Sensory Processing to Social Cognition
Av LouAnne Boyd
Häftad, 2025
442 kr
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This book provides a thorough introduction to the many facets of designing technologies for autism, with a particular focus on optimizing visual attention frameworks. This book is designed to provide a detailed overview of several aspects of technology for autism. Each Chapter illustrates different …
Extended Reality Solutions to Support Older Adults
Potential Applications for Users With and Without Cognitive Impairments
Av Walter R. Boot, Andrew Dilanchian m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
496 kr
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This book explores one way in which recent hardware and software advances have placed humanity on the precipice of a significant shift in how technology can shape our interactions with the world around us: the application of transformative extended reality (XR) technology solutions to support the …
Extended Reality Solutions to Support Older Adults
Potential Applications for Users With and Without Cognitive Impairments
Av Walter R. Boot, Andrew Dilanchian m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
496 kr
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This book explores one way in which recent hardware and software advances have placed humanity on the precipice of a significant shift in how technology can shape our interactions with the world around us: the application of transformative extended reality (XR) technology solutions to support the …
AgeTech Innovations in Healthcare for Older Adults
Av Donald Juzwishin, Maggie MacNeil m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
567 kr
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This book explores the transformative potential of digital technologies to achieve more effective and integrated health care for older adults. It examines the biological and social processes of aging through personas and scenarios, highlighting their impacts on current and future health care …
AgeTech Innovations in Healthcare for Older Adults
Av Donald Juzwishin, Maggie MacNeil m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
567 kr
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This book explores the transformative potential of digital technologies to achieve more effective and integrated health care for older adults. It examines the biological and social processes of aging through personas and scenarios, highlighting their impacts on current and future health care …
AgeTech for Staying Connected
Av Arlene Astell, David Clayton
Inbunden, 2025
442 kr
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This book is a brief introductory guide to the role AgeTech plays in staying connected in later life. It offers insight into current AgeTech research on staying connected and illustrates entry points for deploying such technologies through a range of personas and scenarios capturing the common …
Technologies in Palliative Care for Older People
Av Amara Callistus Nwosu, Sarah Stanley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
567 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of palliative care digital health by covering current developments, methodology, clinical relevance, research priorities, ethical issues, and policy related to technological innovations for those with serious illness. This type of book does not currently …
Age of AgeTech
Essays to Inspire, Change, and Challenge
Inbunden, 2026
567 kr
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The Age of AgeTech: Essays to Inspire, Change, and Challenge explores technology's role in addressing the challenges and opportunities of aging, one of the most profound demographic shifts of the 21st Century that has shaped economies, healthcare systems, and social structures worldwide. This book …
Inclusive Design Premises, Policies, Protocols, and Practices: From Usability to Empowerment
Av Deborah Fels, Shital Desai m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
551 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of Inclusive Design as a framework for developing products, services, environments, and learning experiences that enable the diversity and differing abilities of human populations. It examines the influence of international legislation, standards, and …
