Quality of Life Technology Handbook
eBook - PDF

Quality of Life Technology Handbook

  1. 334 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Quality of Life Technology Handbook

About this book

A collaboration between leading scientists, practitioners, and researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, this book is a comprehensive resource describing Quality of Life technologies and their development, evaluation, adoption, and commercialization. It takes an interdisciplinary team approach to the process of tec

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface: Introduction and Overview—What Do We Mean by Quality of Life Technologies?
  4. Editor
  5. Contributors
  6. Chapter 1 - Who Can Benefit from Quality of Life Technology?
  7. Chapter 2 - Facilitators and Barriers to Technology Uptake: Individual End-User Perspectives
  8. Chapter 3 - Facilitators and Barriers to Technology Uptake: Organizational and Societal Perspectives
  9. Chapter 4 - Assessing Needs, Preferences, and Attitudes Using Survey Methods
  10. Chapter 5 - Design and Development Process
  11. Chapter 6 - Universal Design for Quality of Life Technologies
  12. Chapter 7 - Fostering Teamwork and Community Partnerships
  13. Chapter 8 - Evaluating Quality of Life Technologies
  14. Chapter 9 - Vision-Based Sensing Approaches to QoLT
  15. Chapter 10 - HERB: Personal Assistive Mobile Manipulator in the Home
  16. Chapter 11 - Architecture and Applications of Virtual Coaches
  17. Chapter 12 - Nonwearable In-Home Sensing for Early Detection of Health Changes
  18. Chapter 13 - Quality of Life Technologies in Supporting Family Caregivers
  19. Chapter 14 - Developing Future Generations of QoLT Researchers through Education, Outreach, and Diversity Initiatives
  20. Chapter 15 - Innovation, Commercialization, and Start-Ups
  21. Back Cover