Journal of Assistive Technologies: Volume 9 Issue 1
Table of contents
Is extra care housing in England care-neutral?
Ruth Mayagoitia, Els Van Boxstael, Hedieh Wojgani, Fay Wright, Julienne Hanson, Anthea TinkerExtra care housing (ECH) is housing for older people that aims to provide flexible care while fostering independence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact that some…
Explaining the operation of a home care system
Kenneth J. TurnerThe purpose of this paper is to devise a general solution that allows a policy-based (i.e. rule-based) management system to explain its operation. In particular, a solution has…
Assistive technology in dementia care: methodological issues in research design
Annette Altendorf, Jason SchreiberThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate some of the ethical issues and methodological obstacles encountered when trialling and using safer walking technologies and monitoring…
A study on text entry methods based on eye gestures
Marco PortaThe purpose of this paper is to consider the two main existing text input techniques based on “eye gestures” – namely EyeWrite and Eye-S – and compare them to each other and to…