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HCI
2007
14 years 10 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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14 years 4 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
14 years 10 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
15 years 3 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
14 years 8 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