Designed Technologies for Healthy Aging
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, indep...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham
Springer International Publishing
2015, 2015
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015 |
| Series: | Synthesis Lectures on Assistive, Rehabilitative, and Health-Preserving Technologies
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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, 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 |
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| Physical Description: | XII, 170 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9783031015984 |