Quality Of Life Technology Handbook (rehabilitation Science In Practice Series)

A collaboration between leading scientists, practitioners, and researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, this book is a comprehensive resource describing Quality of Life technologies and their development, evaluation, adoption, and commercialization. It takes an interdisciplinary team approach to the process of technology development for disabled and older persons and discusses the state of the art and future directions of technologies. This work provides direction on how to identify user needs and preferences, engage end-users in the design and development process, and evaluate and commercialize the technologies Content: Who can benefit from quality of life technology? / Richard Schulz, Scott R. Beach -- Facilitators and barriers to technology uptake : individual end-user perspectives / Richard Schulz -- Facilitators and barriers to technology uptake : organizational and societal perspectives / Katherine D. Seelman -- Assessing needs, preferences, and attitudes using survey methods / Scott R. Beach -- Design and development process / Judith T. Matthews, Karen L. Courtney, Annette DeVito Dabbs -- Universal design for quality of life technologies (QoLTs) / Edward Steinfeld, Roger O. Smith -- Fostering teamwork and community partnerships / Judith T. Matthews, Karen L. Courtney -- Evaluating quality of life technologies / Annette Devito Dabbs ... [et al.] -- Vision based sensing approaches to QoLT / Martial Hebert -- HERB : a personal assistive mobile manipulator in the home / Siddhartha Srinivasa -- Architecture and applications of virtual coaches / Daniel P. Siewiorek, Asim Smailagic -- Non-wearable in-home sensing for early detection of health changes / Marjorie Skubic ... [et al.] -- Quality of life technologies in supporting family caregivers / Sara J. Czaja, Chin Chin Lee, Richard Schulz -- Developing future generations of QoLT researchers through education, outreach, and diversity initiatives / Mary Goldberg ... [et al.] -- Innovation, commercialization and start-ups / James F. Jordan.