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

fYear

2008

fDate

20-25 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

3304

Lastpage

3307

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1814-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649911

Filename

4649911