Journal of Assistive Technologies: Volume 10 Issue 4

Editorial

Chris Abbott

Acceptance of seniors towards automatic in home fall detection devices

Florian Feldwieser, Michael Marchollek, Markus Meis, Matthias Gietzelt, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen

Senior citizen falls are one of the highest-cost factors of healthcare within this population group. Various approaches for automatic fall detection exist. However, little is…

Use of a sonification system for science learning by people who are blind

Orly Lahav, Nuha Chagab, Vadim Talis

The purpose of this paper is to examine a central need of students who are blind: the ability to access science curriculum content.

PROCEE: a PROstate Cancer Evaluation and Education serious game for African Caribbean men

Georgina Cosma, David Brown, Nicholas Shopland, Steven Battersby, Sarah Seymour-Smith, Matthew Archer, Masood Khan, A. Graham Pockley

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men in the UK. Black men are in a higher prostate cancer risk group possibly due to inherent genetic factors. The purpose of…

Virtual reality and robots for autism: moving beyond the screen

Judith Good, Sarah Parsons, Nicola Yuill, Mark Brosnan

This short paper reports on the fourth seminar in a seven-seminar series entitled, “Innovative Technologies for Autism: Critical Reflections on Digital Bubbles”, funded by the UK…