Title :
Personalisation and Configuration of assistive technologies
Author :
Burns, William P. ; Nugent, Chris D. ; McCullagh, Paul J. ; Zheng, Huiru ; Finlay, Dewar D. ; Davies, Richard J. ; Donnelly, Mark P. ; Black, Norman D.
Author_Institution :
Computer Science Research Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Abstract :
In this paper we present a multimedia tool that allows personalisation and configuration of an assistive technology. We have developed a tool called HomePUI that allows configuration of three disease domains; cognitive, physical and chronic. In this paper we present the rationale for our work, details of the developed tool and also present two case studies in which the tool has been used within cognitive and chronic disease management domains.
Keywords :
Aging; Medical services; Monitoring; Multimedia systems; Parkinson´s disease; Psychology; Senior citizens; Speech recognition; Usability; User interfaces; Chronic Disease; Cognition; Computer Systems; Computers; Dementia; Equipment Design; Home Care Services; Humans; Pain; Programming Languages; Reproducibility of Results; Self-Help Devices; Software; Time Factors; User-Computer Interface;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1814-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649911
