Journal of Enabling Technologies: Volume 13 Issue 3

Dementia-friendly design of television news broadcasts

Liam Funnell, Isabel Garriock, Ben Shirley, Tracey Williamson

The purpose of this paper is to understand factors that affect viewing of television news programmes by people living with dementia, and to identify dementia-friendly design…

Conversation Analysis (CA) as a tool for exploring interaction in an online video-conferencing based support service

John Chatwin, Phil McEvoy

Around 60 per cent of people with dementia in the UK live at home. The experience of caring for a family member with dementia can be rewarding and positive, but it can also be…

Building rating system: an instrument for building accessibility measurement for better indoor navigation by blind people

Watthanasak Jeamwatthanachai, Mike Wald, Gary Wills

The purpose of this paper is to create a building rating system (BRS) with its bottom-up design model that can be carried out manually and in the future automatically.

SiLearn: an intelligent sign vocabulary learning tool

Jestin Joy, Kannan Balakrishnan, Sreeraj M.

Vocabulary learning is a difficult task for children without hearing ability. Absence of enough learning centers and effective learning tools aggravate the problem. Modern…

Economic impacts of changing technologies on New Zealand homecare delivery

Julia Lesley Hennessy, Averyl Rodrigues

The population of New Zealand (NZ) is ageing; the proportion of people aged 65 and over as compared with the younger age groups is expected to increase from 15 per cent in 2016 to…