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E-Health, Assistive Technologies and Applications for Assisted Living: Challenges and Solutions

E-Health, Assistive Technologies and Applications for Assisted Living: Challenges and Solutions

Carsten Röcker (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) and Martina Ziefle (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Indexed In: SCOPUS
Release Date: April, 2011 | Copyright: © 2011 | Pages: 392

Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase
ISBN13: 9781609604691
EISBN13: 9781609604714
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-469-1

Description:

E-health technologies will play an increasingly important role in the coming years, as more and more older people will require medical care and support. Due to the prevalent demographic changes and the continuously decreasing number of nursing staff and caregivers, there is an increased need for intelligent medical technologies, which enable people to live independently at home.

E-Health, Assistive Technologies and Applications for Assisted Living: Challenges and Solutions reviews existing literature in assistive technologies and provides suggestions and solutions for improving the quality of assisted living facilities and residences through the use of e-health systems and services.
Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Ambient assisted living research and development
  • Assistive technologies for an aging population
  • Changing healthcare delivery
  • Participative personal health record system development
  • Patient centered medical home
  • Privacy and security in e-health applications
  • Real-time teleconsultation in emergency medical services
  • Role of online trust in e-health
  • Security in e-health applications
  • Wearable systems for monitoring mobility related activities

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"This is useful as an overview of telehealth, a relatively new area of healthcare. It also provides specific detail about research projects which will potentially help others to design and implement technology for healthcare delivery."

– Jessica C. Baxter, MSN, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, USA. Doody's Book Review 2011.

The knowledge and insights provided in this book will help students as well as systems designers to understand the fundamental social and technical requirements future healthcare technologies have to meet. By providing a well-rounded introduction within one single volume, this book is equally suited as a library reference and upper-level course supplement, but also represents a first-class resource for independent study.

– Martina Ziefle, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; and Carsten Röcker, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

..this book makes an important contribution. As it points out, currently "Healthcare is the responsibility of the person. Medical intervention is the responsibility of the physician. How the two come together is poised to change dramatically". e-Health, Assistive Technologies and Applications for Assisted Living is chock-full of challenging ideas for developing healthcare systems, distinctly different from the current sick-care systems.

– Martin Guha, The Journal of Mental Health, 21[4], pp. 422-425.

Carsten Röcker is a senior researcher at the Human Technology Centre (HumTec) at RWTH Aachen University, working in the research program "eHealth - Enhancing Mobility with Aging." As part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers he is designing healthcare applications for supporting elderly people in ubiquitous computing environments. Previously, Carsten was a visiting PostDoc at the Media Computing Group, focusing on the evaluation of user requirements for smart work environments. Before joining RWTH Aachen University in 2008, he was a PostDoc at the Distributed Cognition and HCI Laboratory at the University of California in San Diego. From 2000 to 2006 he worked as a research associate at the Fraunhofer Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI) in Darmstadt. During this time he was involved in several projects designing novel information and communication technologies for intelligent home and office environments. He has an interdisciplinary background with academic degrees in the areas computer science (PhD), psychology (PhD), electrical engineering (Master) and management (Master).
Martina Ziefle, Ph.D., is Professor for Communication Science at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and head of a research group at the Human Technology Centre (HumTec). HumTec is funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments and aims at fostering high level interdisciplinary research between the humanities/social sciences and the engineering/natural sciences. Prof. Ziefle’s research addresses human factors in different technology types and using contexts, taking demands of user diversity into account. Her methodological competence regards the experimental and empirical evaluation of human computer interaction. A special research focus is directed to the usability and acceptance of mobile devices, which are increasingly used in novel contexts. Her main research concern is to shape technology innovation in ways that technology development is truly balanced with the human factor. In addition to teaching and directing research on campus, Prof. Ziefle leads various projects funded by industrial and public authorities, dealing with the interaction and communication of humans with technology.

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Editorial Advisory Board
  • Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz (MUG), Austria
  • Andre Kushniruk, University of Victoria, Canada
  • Pascale Carayon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • P.L. Patrick Rau, Tsinghua University, China
  • Russell Beale, University of Birmingham, UK
  • Martin G. Helander, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Maddy D. Janse, Sector Digital Lifestyle Technology of Philips Research, the Netherlands
  • James D. Hollan, University of California, USA
  • Saadi Lahlou, London School of Economics, UK
  • Susanne Bay, Siemens AG, Germany