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Maria Laura De Filippis, Michael P. Craven and Tom Dening
Assistive technology (AT) can help support the continued independence of people living with dementia, supported by informal carers. Opinions and preferences of informal carers towards a range of assistive and digital information and communication technol...
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Michal Mackowski, Mateusz Kawulok, Piotr Brzoza and Dominik Spinczyk
Teaching mathematics to blind people is a challenge of modern educational methods. This article presents a method of preparing the adapted material and its usage in the learning process of mathematics by blind people, as well as the results of evaluating...
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Kenji Kato, Keita Aimoto, Koki Kawamura, Tatsuya Yoshimi, Naoki Itoh and Izumi Kondo
Reducing Physical Burden for Caregivers by Use of a Bathing Assist Device.
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Ur?ka Smrke, Nejc Plohl and Izidor Mlakar
The rapidly increasing share of ageing adults in the population drives the need and interest in assistive technology, as it has the potential to support ageing individuals in living independently and safely. However, technological development rarely refl...
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Anas Abou Allaban, Maozhen Wang and Taskin Padir
The aging population is growing at an unprecedented rate globally and robotics-enabled solutions are being developed to provide better independent living for older adults. In this study, we report the results from a systematic review of the state-of-the-...
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Van Kha Ly Ha, Rifai Chai and Hung T. Nguyen
The telepresence wheelchair system with 360-degree vision can use for people with disabilities in a variety of healthcare applications.
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Xiaochen Zhang, Xiaoyu Yao, Yi Zhu and Fei Hu
The navigation system can be implemented in smartphones. With affordable haptic accessories, it helps the visually impaired people to navigate indoor without using GPS and wireless beacons. In the meantime, the advanced path planning in the system benefi...
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Jonathan A. Casas, Nathalia Céspedes, Carlos A. Cifuentes, Luisa F. Gutierrez, Mónica Rincón-Roncancio and Marcela Múnera
Currently, Social Assistive Robotics (SAR) is widely explored in different areas and scenarios. In cardiac rehabilitation, SAR has been recently implemented as a tool to improve the quality of the procedures and support patients to boost their performanc...
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Shiwei Chen, Dayue Yao, Huiliang Cao and Chong Shen
Action and identification problems are the challenges that visually impaired people often encounter in their lives. The high price of existing commercial intelligent auxiliary equipment has placed enormous economic pressure on most visually impaired peop...
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Wesley Pryor, Liem Nguyen, Qumrun Naher Islam, Faruk Ahmed Jalal and Manjula Marella
Access to assistive products (AP) is an under-researched public health issue. Using an adaptation of a draft World Health Organization tool—the ‘Assistive Technology Assessment—Needs (ATA-N)’ for measuring unmet needs and use of A...
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Ellen Herlache-Pretzer, Melissa Y. Winkle, Rachel Csatari, Alyssa Kolanowski, Amy Londry and Rachel Dawson
It is becoming more common for people with disabilities to procure service dogs as a form of assistive technology (AT). However, there is little qualitative research examining the impact of service dogs on engagement in valued daily activities (occupatio...
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Rami Yared and Bessam Abdulrazak
While elderly people perform their daily indoor activities, they are subjected to several risks. To improve the quality of life of elderly people and promote healthy aging and independent living, elderly people need to be provided with an assistive techn...
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Valerie Penton, Diana L. Gustafson
Pág. 93 - 120
People with disabilities experience greater social and economic barriers and higher levels of poverty than people without disabilities. Assistive Technology (AT) helps address barriers and can positively impact on the health of people with disabilities. ...
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Sylvia Söderström
Norwegian authorities? policy aims at securing an information society for all, emphasizing the importance of accessible and usable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for everyone. While the body of research on young people?s use of ICT is qui...
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Christos Kouroupetroglou,Dimitris Tektonidis,Adamantios Koumpis,Ioannis Ignatiadis
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In this paper we are going to present a set of 5 future scenarios that were developed within the eAccessibility2020 study. The study aims to explore and analyse the referred relationships between the emerging ICT landscape, in the societal and economic c...
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Christos Kouroupetroglou,Dimitris Tektonidis,Adamantios Koumpis,Ioannis Ignatiadis
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This paper presents the outcomes from the interviews with experts and stakeholders that took part under the study on e-Accessibility2020[1] (â??Study on Implications from Future ICT Trends on Assistive Technology and Accessibility
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Toma? Kosar, Zhenli Lu, Marjan Mernik, Marjan Horvat and Matej Crepin?ek
Rehabilitation aids help people with temporal or permanent disabilities during the rehabilitation process. However, these solutions are usually expensive and, consequently, inaccessible outside of professional medical institutions. Rapid advances in soft...
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Daniel Johnston, Hauke Egermann and Gavin Kearney
Virtual Reality (VR) has been an active area of research in the development of interactive interventions for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for over two decades. These immersive environments create a safe platform in which therapy can ad...
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Nirmalya Thakur and Chia Y. Han
This work makes multiple scientific contributions to the field of Indoor Localization for Ambient Assisted Living in Smart Homes. First, it presents a Big-Data driven methodology that studies the multimodal components of user interactions and analyzes th...
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