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Safe at Home with Assistive Technology
Ingrid . Ed(S): Kollak
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Description for Safe at Home with Assistive Technology
Hardback. Editor(s): Kollak, Ingrid. Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Num Pages: 230 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, 29 colour illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: MQW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 526.
This book describes how assistive technology can help handicapped, elderly and acutely sick people to manage their daily lives better and stay safe in the home. It discusses how safety is understood from an ethical, technical and social perspective, and offers examples of the problems that users, their helpers and professional carers have with assistive technology in everyday situations.
The book provides insights from user-centred research and uses photographs to illustrate the main topic: how users and technology can work together to ensure safety. User-focused and combining experience with research, the book will interest users of these kinds of technology, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Series
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319428895
SKU
V9783319428895
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Ingrid . Ed(S): Kollak
Ingrid Kollak is currently a professor in the fields of health care and nursing with more than 20 years experience with direct client and patient contacts. A leader of studies on health care and technology, which cooperate with users, health professionals from different fields as well as small companies developing assistive technology and counsellors, Professor Kollak is also an author ... Read more
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