Quality of life technology handbook / editor, Richard Schulz. - xviii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Rehabilitation science in practice . - Rehabilitation science in practice series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Who can benefit from quality of life technology? / Richard Schulz, Scott R. Beach -- Facilitators and barriers to technology uptake : individual end-user perspectives / Richard Schulz -- Facilitators and barriers to technology uptake : organizational and societal perspectives / Katherine D. Seelman -- Assessing needs, preferences, and attitudes using survey methods / Scott R. Beach -- Design and development process / Judith T. Matthews, Karen L. Courtney, Annette DeVito Dabbs -- Universal design for quality of life technologies (QoLTs) / Edward Steinfeld, Roger O. Smith -- Fostering teamwork and community partnerships / Judith T. Matthews, Karen L. Courtney -- Evaluating quality of life technologies / Annette Devito Dabbs ... [et al.] -- Vision based sensing approaches to QoLT / Martial Hebert -- HERB : a personal assistive mobile manipulator in the home / Siddhartha Srinivasa -- Architecture and applications of virtual coaches / Daniel P. Siewiorek, Asim Smailagic -- Non-wearable in-home sensing for early detection of health changes / Marjorie Skubic ... [et al.] -- Quality of life technologies in supporting family caregivers / Sara J. Czaja, Chin Chin Lee, Richard Schulz -- Developing future generations of QoLT researchers through education, outreach, and diversity initiatives / Mary Goldberg ... [et al.] -- Innovation, commercialization and start-ups / James F. Jordan.

9781466505346 (alk. paper) RM557.37


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