What help do older people need?: constructing a functional design space of electronic assistive technology applications

  • Authors:
  • Dennis Maciuszek;Johan Aberg;Nahid Shahmehri

  • Affiliations:
  • Linköpings universitet, Linköping, Sweden;Linköpings universitet, Linköping, Sweden;Linköpings universitet, Linköping, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In times of ageing populations and shrinking care resources, electronic assistive technology (EAT) has the potential of contributing to guaranteeing frail older people a continued high quality of life. This paper provides users and designers of EAT with an instrument for choosing and producing relevant and useful EAT applications in the form of a functional design space. We present the field study that led to the design space, and give advice on using the tool.