Journal of Enabling Technologies: Volume 12 Issue 4

How groups of nursing home residents respond to “the CRDL”: a pilot study

Tom Luyten, Susy Braun, Susan van Hooren, Luc de Witte

The purpose of this paper is to describe whether and how groups of nursing home residents respond to the interactive device “the CRDL”. The CRDL can translate touches between…

An intelligent video-monitoring system to detect falls: a proof of concept

Nolwenn Lapierre, Jean Meunier, Alain St-Arnaud, Jacqueline Rousseau

To face the challenges raised by the high incidence of falls among older adults, the intelligent video-monitoring system (IVS), a fall detection system that respects privacy, was…

Adoption of internet of things (IOT) based wearables for healthcare of older adults – a behavioural reasoning theory (BRT) approach

Brijesh Sivathanu

The purpose of this paper is to utilize the novel approach of applying the behavioral reasoning theory (BRT) to examine the adoption of internet of things (IoT) based wearables…

Key factors in the engineering process for systems for aging in place contributing to low usability and success

Jean D. Hallewell Haslwanter, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Klaus Miesenberger

Digital systems for independent aging, support and care are not being adopted as hoped. The purpose of this paper is to examine the results of three studies to derive key factors…

Quantified Lives and Vital Data

Kellie Morrissey

Digital Health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Alexandra Young