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HCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
The Social Implications of an Assisted Living Reminder System
We present the findings of an in situ field study conducted using our assisted living system, I-Living, that aims to enable seniors to live in a costeffective manner independently....
Bedoor K. AlShebli, Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalio...
JAISE
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
The missing ones: Key ingredients towards effective ambient assisted living systems
The population of elderly people keeps increasing rapidly in the past decades, which becomes a predominant aspect of our societies. As such, solutions both efficacious and cost-eff...
Hong Sun, Vincenzo De Florio, Ning Gui, Chris Blon...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Assistance: the work practices of human administrative assistants and their implications for it and organizations
Assistance – work carried out by one entity in support of another – is a concept of long-standing interest, both as a type of human work common in organizations and as a model...
Thomas Erickson, Catalina M. Danis, Wendy A. Kello...
ISWC
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
VibeFones: Socially Aware Mobile Phones
Today's mobile phones are essentially off-the-shelf, mass-market wearable computers. In this paper, we describe mobile social software that uses location, proximity and tone ...
Anmol Madan, Alex Pentland
ASSETS
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Investigating meaning in uses of assistive devices: implications of social and professional contexts
sible goal crossing desktop widgets. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Boston, Massachusetts April 4-9, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New...
Kristen Shinohara