AIMC Topic: Needs Assessment

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Assistive robots for socialization in elderly people: results pertaining to the needs of the users.

Aging clinical and experimental research
BACKGROUND/AIM: Technological solutions can support the elderly, improve their quality of life and reduce isolation and loneliness. The Euro-Japan ACCRA (Agile Co-Creation for Robots and Aging) project has the objective of building a reference co-cre...

Robot deployment in long-term care : Case study on using a mobile robot to support physiotherapy.

Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
BACKGROUND: Healthcare systems in industrialized countries face the challenge of providing care for a growing number of elderly people. Information technology has the possibility of facilitating this process by providing support for nursing staff and...

Designing a social and assistive robot for seniors.

Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
BACKGROUND: The development of social assistive robots is an approach with the intention of preventing and detecting falls among seniors. There is a need for a relatively low-cost mobile robot with an arm and a gripper which is small enough to naviga...

Uncovering Hospitalists' Information Needs from Outside Healthcare Facilities in the Context of Health Information Exchange Using Association Rule Learning.

Applied clinical informatics
BACKGROUND: Important barriers to health information exchange (HIE) adoption are clinical workflow disruptions and troubles with the system interface. Prior research suggests that HIE interfaces providing faster access to useful information may stimu...

Assessment of brain-machine interfaces from the perspective of people with paralysis.

Journal of neural engineering
OBJECTIVE: One of the main goals of brain-machine interface (BMI) research is to restore function to people with paralysis. Currently, multiple BMI design features are being investigated, based on various input modalities (externally applied and surg...

Designing for designers: insights into the knowledge users of inclusive design.

Applied ergonomics
Over the last twenty years, research on inclusive design has delivered a wealth of publications and initiatives, forming an emerging knowledge base for inclusive design. The inclusive design knowledge base breaks down into two discrete areas - unders...

Exploring supportive care needs of lung cancer patients in China and predicting with machine learning models.

Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
PURPOSE: This study aims to explore the level of supportive care needs among hospitalized lung cancer patients in China, explore the key influencing factors and use machine learning (ML) to develop predictive models for the level of supportive care n...