Technology and Aging : Selected Papers from the 2007 International Conference on Technology and Aging / edited by Alex Mihailidis [and others].

"The festival of international conferences on caregiving, disability, aging and technology"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Aging in Place -- -- Enhancing smart home algorithms using temporal relations / V.R. Jakkula and D.J. Cook -- Automatic activity detection for in-place care / J. Silva, T. Chau and A. Mihailidis -- Deploying wide-scale in-home assessment technology / J. Kaye [and others] -- Understanding how prescription medication compliance is affected by out of the home activities / W. Chung, J.C. Kimel and B. Needham -- A smart home to assist in recipe completion / H. Pigot [and others] -- Autonomous guidance through handwashing using a partially observable Markov decision process / A. von Bertoldi [and others] -- Accommodating aging workers who have a disability / M. Williams, D. Sabata and J. Zolna -- -- Assistive Technology -- -- An empirical study of seniors' perceptions of mobile phones as memory aids / M. Massimi and R.M. Baecker -- CIRCA : a communication prosthesis for dementia / A.J. Astell [and others] -- Design of novel sling interface systems for patient lifting / T. Dutta, P.J. Holliday and G. Fernie -- Seniors on seniors (SOS) technologies : peer mentoring to introduce new technologies / J. Mattie [and others] -- -- Monitoring and Telehealth -- -- Usage of fractal analysis in evaluating health and disease / K.A. Edginton and N. Berme -- A computer vision-based approach for abnormal gait analysis / R. Prinz, A.B. Albu and N. Livingston -- Using a home monitoring system to improve night home safety for community-dwelling persons with dementia / M.A. Rowe, J. Campbell and S. Lane -- Integrating computer-based health coaching into elder home care / H.B. Jimison and M. Pavel -- An approach for deriving continuous health assessment indicators from in-home sensor data / T. Hayes, M. Pavel and J. Kaye -- A telementoring robot for home care / F. Michaud [and others] -- A comparison of in-home vs. telerehabilitation / J.A. Sanford and H. Hoenig -- RFID : a tool for measuring wandering in persons with dementia / W.D. Kearns and D.H. Moore.

Transportation and Mobility -- -- A comparison of stereovision and infrared as sensors for an anti-collision powered wheelchair for older adults with cognitive impairments / P. Viswanathan [and others] -- Intelligent wheelchair : lessons learned from development / T. Gomi -- A handrail cueing system to prevent falls in older adults / C.Y. Scovil [and others] -- An automated tool for detecting and preventing unsafe stair use / J. Snock, J. Hoey and A. Mihailidis -- Reducing adverse effects of walkers on stability / K.C. Cheng, H. Bateni and B.E. Maki -- Older driver simulator performance in relation to driving habits and DMV driving records / G.D. Park [and others] -- -- Design -- -- A new viewpoint to inclusive design / A. Stone and N. Mathers -- Evaluating design features that affect older adults' performance on common computer tasks / M.A. O'Brien, W.A. Rogers and A.D. Fisk -- Involving patients in concept generation : unusual collaborations spur self-care technology innovation / C. Horwitz and A. Pentland -- Off-the-shelf infrastructure in smart apartments for people with dementia / T. Adlam and R. Orpwood.

This publication presents articles on Aging-in-Place, Assistive Technology, Monitoring and Telehealth, Transportation and Mobility, and Design. The section on assistive technology (AT) represents arguably the most mature and generic aspect of technology and aging; except that AT can hardly be regarded really as a specific discipline any longer. Assistive devices and systems command an expansive gamut of technological and engineering specialties, drawing upon mechanical engineering and industrial design at one end of the field and cybernetic systems engineering and brain-computer user interface.

English.

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