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- Caltenco, Héctor, et al.
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Co-Designing wearable technology together with visually impaired children
- 2018
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Ingår i: Wearable Technologies : Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications - Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. - : IGI Global. - 9781522554851 - 152255484X - 9781522554844 ; , s. 314-332
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents the process and results of a set of studies within the ABBI EU project, with the general aim to co-design wearable technology (an audio bracelet) together with visually impaired children, starting at a young age. The authors discuss user preferences related to sounds and tactile materials and present the results of a focus group with very young visually-impaired children under the age of 5, together with their parents. They find that multisensory feedback (visual, tactile/haptic, auditory) is useful and that preferences vary - also the drastic and potentially unpleasant sounds and materials may have a role. Further studies investigate the possibilities of using the ABBI wearable technology for social contexts and games. In a series of game workshops children with and without visual impairments created games with wearable technology employing very simple interactivity. The authors report the created games, and note that even with this simple interactivity it is possible to create fun, inclusive and rich socially co-located games.
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- Xie, L., et al.
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Hybrid integration technology for wearable sensor systems
- 2018
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Ingår i: Wearable Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. - : IGI Global. - 9781522554851 - 152255484X - 9781522554844 ; , s. 128-160
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Personalized and pervasive healthcare devices help seamlessly integrate healthcare and wellness into the daily life, independent of time and space. Silicon Integrated Circuit (IC) has been used in many advanced healthcare applications due to the compact size and ultra-low power consumption. Meanwhile, printed electronics (PE) is considered as a promising approach enabling cost-effective manufacturing of thin, flexible, and light-weight devices. A hybrid integration of IC and PE provides a new solution for the future wearable healthcare devices. In this chapter, firstly a customized bio-sensing IC is demonstrated, which can detect and process various bio-signals; secondly, the feasibility and performance of using inkjet printing technology as enabling technology has been examined for the fabrication of flexible biosensing devices. Finally, a wearable and flexible Bio-Patch is presented by leveraging hybrid integration of PE and bio-sensing IC. In-vivo test results show that the flexible Bio-Patch provides high quality ECG signal comparable with the one gained by bedside ECG machine.
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- Lindström, John, 1970-, et al.
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Wearable Computing : Security Challenges, BYOD, Privacy and Legal Aspects
- 2018
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Ingår i: Wearable technologies. - Hershey, PA : IGI Global. - 9781522554844 - 9781522554851 ; , s. 1043-1067
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Wearable computing is gaining more and more interest as new "wearables," intended for both work and leisure, are introduced. This trend brings benefits and challenges; for instance, the potential to improve work processes and issues related to IT management and privacy. The introduction and use of wearable computing provides opportunities to improve and reengineer work processes in organizations but can at the same time introduce alignment problems, as users in organizations may adopt the new technology before organizations are prepared. Further, alignment problems posed by the emerging trend, "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD), are discussed. In addition, as in the cloud computing area, needed and necessary supportive legal frameworks have not yet fully addressed the new wearable computing technology. In the light of recent developments regarding global intelligence gathering, security and privacy concerns must be given careful consideration. Different alignment concepts for managing security challenges and legal aspects related to wearable computing, such as cultivation, care, hospitality, and care with hospitality, are discussed in the chapter. © 2018 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.
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