Quality of life technology handbook - Schulz, Richard, 1947- (Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Self-help devices; Aged; Quality of life