Design and use of assistive technology : social, technical, ethical, and economic challenges /

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Imprint:	New York : Springer, c2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 117 p.) : ill.
Language:	English
Subject:	Self-help devices for people with disabilities. Self-help devices for people with disabilities.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8895127

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Other authors / contributors:	Oishi, Meeko Mitsuko K. Mitchell, Ian M. Van der Loos, Hendrik F. Machiel.
ISBN:	9781441970312 1441970312
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	& Quot;Design and Use of Assistive Technology" assesses major hurdles in the design and use of assistive technologies, while also providing guidelines and recommendations to improve these technologies. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to solving the major issues surrounding designing and using assistive technologies for the physically impaired by blending engineering, computer science and medicine. The most difficult problems in assistive technologies, such as privacy concerns in data gathering and analysis, inherent heterogeneity of the user population, knowledge transfer o.

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