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Building an effective ontology for assistive technology.

Studies in health technology and informatics Jan 1, 2015
The aim of this paper was to develop and validate an ontology for one class of assistive technology (AT), namely physically controllable pointing devices, using the Delphi method. Six occupational therapists with AT expertise identified important ite...
Humans Reproducibility of Results Surveys and Questionnaires Delphi Technique Consensus Biological Ontologies Self-Help Devices
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Assistive Technology as an artificial intelligence opportunity: Case study of letter-based, head movement driven communication.

Studies in health technology and informatics Jan 1, 2015
We studied an artificial intelligent assisted interaction between a computer and a human with severe speech and physical impairments (SSPI). In order to speed up AAC, we extended a former study of typing performance optimization using a framework tha...
Communication Devices for People with Disabilities Humans Head Movements Artificial Intelligence Male Writing User-Computer Interface Adult
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Measuring Benefits of Telepresence robot for Individuals with Motor Impairments.

Studies in health technology and informatics Jan 1, 2015
The telepresence robot is a type of technology used to socialize with people in remote places. If this technology is efficient, it could be an alternative means to attend social activities such as going to school and work for people who have difficul...
Self-Help Devices Computer Terminals Humans Italy Social Isolation User-Computer Interface Persons with Disabilities Robotics Adult Male Quality of Life
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Validation of the ULCEAT methodology by applying it in retrospect to the Roboticbed.

Studies in health technology and informatics Jan 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: In answer to the increasing demand for care by the Japanese oldest portion of the population, an extensive programme of life support robots is under development, advocated by the Japanese government. Roboticbed (RB) is developed to facili...
Female Aged Adult Male Aging Middle Aged Consumer Behavior Humans Self-Help Devices Persons with Disabilities Beds Robotics
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Tele-care robot for assisting independent senior citizens who live at home.

Studies in health technology and informatics Jan 1, 2015
In the last twenty years most developed countries face dramatic demographic changes, and predominantly the rapid aging of their population. As the share of elderly people is climbing while the number of care providers is declining, the aging problem ...
Self-Help Devices Wireless Technology Humans Aged Robotics Activities of Daily Living Independent Living Home Care Services
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Ontology-based Semantic Support to Improve Accessibility of Graphics.

Studies in health technology and informatics Jan 1, 2015
We aim to ease the process of authoring accessible graphics as well as taking a first step towards the long-term goal of allowing blind persons to access graphics autonomously. We are developing and experimenting with a hierarchical set of knowledge ...
Knowledge Bases Information Storage and Retrieval Semantics Terminology as Topic Computer Graphics Persons with Visual Disabilities Humans Software Natural Language Processing
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Assessing User Needs and Requirements for Assistive Robots at Home.

Studies in health technology and informatics Jan 1, 2015
'Robots in healthcare' is a very trending topic. This paper gives an overview of currently and commonly used methods to gather user needs and requirements in research projects in the field of assistive robotics. Common strategies between authors are ...
User-Computer Interface Robotics Equipment Design Humans Aged Home Care Services Self-Help Devices Needs Assessment
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Open Ambient Intelligence Environments.

Studies in health technology and informatics Jan 1, 2015
The present impact of ambient intelligence concepts in eInclusion is first briefly reviewed. Suggestions and examples of how ambient intelligent environments should be specified, designed and used to favour independent living of people with activity ...
Humans Artificial Intelligence User-Computer Interface Expert Systems Self-Help Devices
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Enhancing Patient Safety Event Reporting by K-nearest Neighbor Classifier.

Studies in health technology and informatics Jan 1, 2015
Data quality was placed as a major reason for the low utility of patient safety event reporting systems. A pressing need in improving data quality has advanced recent research focus in data entry associated with human factors. The debate on structure...
United States Medical Errors Risk Management Meaningful Use Data Mining Data Accuracy Quality Improvement Pattern Recognition, Automated Machine Learning Patient Safety Decision Support Systems, Clinical
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Facilitating Full-text Access to Biomedical Literature Using Open Access Resources.

Studies in health technology and informatics Jan 1, 2015
Open access (OA) resources and local libraries often have their own literature databases, especially in the field of biomedicine. We have developed a method of linking a local library to a biomedical OA resource facilitating researchers' full-text ar...
Database Management Systems Machine Learning Semantics Databases, Bibliographic Pattern Recognition, Automated Periodicals as Topic Open Access Publishing Vocabulary, Controlled Data Mining
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