BookClaudia B. Rébola.
Summary: 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, independent self care, healthy home and active lifestyle. The book contains well-documented and illustrative recent examples of designed technologies--ranging from wearable devices, to mobile applications, to assistive robots-- on the broad areas of design and computation, including industrial design, interaction design, graphic design, human-computer interaction, software engineering, and artificial intelligence.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Social connections
2. Independent self care
3. Healthy home
4. Active lifestyle
Conclusion
Contributors
Companies, laboratories and institutions
About the author.