Mobile assistive technologies for the visually impaired

L Hakobyan, J Lumsden, D O'Sullivan, H Bartlett - Survey of ophthalmology, 2013 - Elsevier
There are around 285 million visually impaired people worldwide, and around 370,000
people are registered as blind or partially sighted in the UK. Ongoing advances in …

Ethical design of intelligent assistive technologies for dementia: a descriptive review

M Ienca, T Wangmo, F Jotterand, RW Kressig… - … and engineering ethics, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The use of Intelligent Assistive Technology (IAT) in dementia care opens the
prospects of reducing the global burden of dementia and enabling novel opportunities to …

The interaction experiences of visually impaired people with assistive technology: A case study of smartphones

HK Kim, SH Han, J Park, J Park - International Journal of Industrial …, 2016 - Elsevier
Globally, the number of visually impaired people is large and increasing. Many assistive
technologies are being developed to help visually impaired people, because they still have …

[HTML][HTML] Connected health user willingness to share personal health data: questionnaire study

M Karampela, S Ouhbi, M Isomursu - Journal of medical Internet research, 2019 - jmir.org
Background Connected health has created opportunities for leveraging health data to
deliver preventive and personalized health care services. The increasing number of …

Smart home technology for telemedicine and emergency management

KF Li - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized …, 2013 - Springer
With the ageing population, mobility is an important issue and it deters the elderlies to visit
health clinics on a regular basis. Individuals with disabilities also face the same obstacles for …

Ubiquitous technologies for older people

M Cozza, A De Angeli, L Tonolli - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, we present a close reading of work in ubicomp of applications for older people.
Starting from three lines of enquiry defined in the inaugural issue of this journal, we discuss …

Making family care work: dependence, privacy and remote home monitoring telecare systems

J Vines, S Lindsay, GW Pritchard, M Lie… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Supporting independent living for the ageing population in later life is an often-cited
application area for ubiquitous computing. Telecare services such as remote monitoring …

A systematic literature review on devices and systems for ambient assisted living: solutions and trends from different user perspectives

P Cedillo, C Sanchez, K Campos… - … on eDemocracy & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The aim of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is to help people (eg, elderly, children) to have an
independent and monitored life with the use and assistance of technology. For this …

Hefestos: an intelligent system applied to ubiquitous accessibility

J Tavares, J Barbosa, I Cardoso, C Costa… - Universal Access in the …, 2016 - Springer
This article proposes Hefestos, an intelligent system applied to ubiquitous accessibility. This
model uses ubiquitous computing concepts to manage accessibility resources for people …

Ubiquitous computing: Applications and research opportunities

JLV Barbosa - 2015 IEEE International Conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
About 25 years ago, Mark Weiser introduced the concept of Ubiquitous Computing. Ten
years later, Mahadev Satyanarayanan revisited and reinforced the concept by publishing …