scholarly journals Designing wearable technologies for users with disabilities: Accessibility, usability, and connectivity factors

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 205566831986213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan W Moon ◽  
Paul MA Baker ◽  
Kenneth Goughnour
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Development Process ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
Pertinent Literature ◽  
Wearable Technologies ◽  
Device Development ◽  
Potential Impact

The increasing availability of wearable devices (wearables), “smart” home, and other next-generation wirelessly connected devices for work, home, and leisure presents opportunities and challenges for users with disabilities. As augmentative tools for engagement, control, and information, these technologies should not only be usable, but also be accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities. In order to better capture the dimensions of inclusivity of wearable devices, the authors have conducted a review of pertinent literature with respect to a range of representative applications and examples of currently available technologies. Drawing on the findings of the review, the aim of this article is to explore the potential impact of inclusive design principles on future device development for users with disabilities. These observations can help designers incorporate inclusive perspectives into the development process. Such an approach, where people with disabilities constitute an integral part of the development process, will yield products and services that can facilitate increased accessibility, independence, and community participation.

A review of the most impactful published pharmacotherapy-pertinent literature of 2019 and 2020 for clinicians caring for patients with thermal or inhalation injury

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M Hill ◽  
Allison N Boyd ◽  
Sarah Zavala ◽  
Beatrice Adams ◽  
Melissa Reger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Current Practice ◽  
Inhalation Injury ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Pertinent Literature ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Primary Literature ◽  
Thermal Injuries ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Manual Review

Abstract Keeping abreast with current literature can be challenging, especially for practitioners caring for patients sustaining thermal or inhalation injury. Practitioners caring for patients with thermal injuries publish in a wide variety of journals, which further increases the complexity for those with resource limitations. Pharmacotherapy research continues to be a minority focus in primary literature. This review is a renewal of previous years’ work to facilitate extraction and review of the most recent pharmacotherapy-centric studies in patients with thermal and inhalation injury. Sixteen geographically dispersed, board-certified pharmacists participated in the review. A MeSH-based, filtered search returned 1,536 manuscripts over the previous 2-year period. After manual review and exclusions, only 98 (6.4%) manuscripts were determined to have a potential impact on current pharmacotherapy practices and included in the review. A summary of the 10 articles that scored highest are included in the review. Nearly half of the reviewed manuscripts were assessed to lack a significant impact on current practice. Despite an increase in published literature over the previous 2-year review, the focus and quality remain unchanged. There remains a need for investment in well-designed, high impact, pharmacotherapy-pertinent research for patients sustaining thermal or inhalation injuries.

Wearable Technologies for Helping Human Thermophysiological Comfort

2018 ◽  
pp. 203-231
Author(s):  
Radostina A. Angelova
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cold Environment ◽  
Human Comfort ◽  
Wearable Technologies ◽  
Thermoregulatory System ◽  
Intelligent Clothing

The thermophysiological comfort is one of the aspects of the human comfort. It is related to the thermoregulatory system of the body and its reactions to the temperature of the surrounding air, activity and clothing. The aim of the chapter is to present the state of the art in the wearable technologies for helping the human thermophysiological comfort. The basic processes of body's thermoregulatory system, the role of the hypothalamus, the reactions of the body in hot and cold environment, together with the related injuries, are described. In the second part of the chapter smart and intelligent clothing, textiles and accessories are presented together with wearable devices for body's heating/cooling.

Societal Implications of Wearable Technology

2016 ◽  
pp. 238-266
Author(s):  
Katina Michael ◽  
Deniz Gokyer ◽  
Samer Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Wearable Technologies ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
The University

This chapter presents a set of scenarios involving the GoPro wearable Point of View (PoV) camera. The scenarios are meant to stimulate discussion about acceptable usage contexts with a focus on security and privacy. The chapter provides a wide array of examples of how overt wearable technologies are perceived and how they might/might not be welcomed into society. While the scenario is based at the University of Wollongong campus in Australia, the main implications derived from the fictitious events are useful in drawing out the predicted pros and cons of the technology. The scenarios are interpreted and the main thematic issues are drawn out and discussed. An in depth analysis takes place around the social implications, the moral and ethical problems associated with such technology, and possible future developments with respect to wearable devices.

Accessible and Inclusive Content and Applications

2017 ◽  
pp. 54-67
Author(s):  
Tom Brunet ◽  
P. G. Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
General Application

As devices have become smaller and more pervasive, usage scenarios that have historically been common for people with disabilities are finding more general application for all users. Overall, the consideration of accessibility improves the usability of applications for all users. This chapter will discuss standards for accessibility, inclusive design, and topics related to the development of accessible mobile content and applications. The discussion will apply to mobile content, such as EPUB documents, and topics related to Web, native, and hybrid applications.

scholarly journals A Pedestrian Dead Reckoning Method for Head-Mounted Sensors

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (21) ◽  
pp. 6349
Author(s):  
Xinyu Hou ◽  
Jeroen Bergmann
Keyword(s):  
Global Positioning System ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Dead Reckoning ◽  
The Body ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Suitable Alternative ◽  
Wearable Technologies ◽  
Emergency Rescue ◽  
Global Positioning ◽  
Pedestrian Dead Reckoning

Pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) plays an important role in modern life, including localisation and navigation if a Global Positioning System (GPS) is not available. Most previous PDR methods adopted foot-mounted sensors. However, humans have evolved to keep the head steady in space when the body is moving in order to stabilise the visual field. This indicates that sensors that are placed on the head might provide a more suitable alternative for real-world tracking. Emerging wearable technologies that are connected to the head also makes this a growing field of interest. Head-mounted equipment, such as glasses, are already ubiquitous in everyday life. Whilst other wearable gear, such as helmets, masks, or mouthguards, are becoming increasingly more common. Thus, an accurate PDR method that is specifically designed for head-mounted sensors is needed. It could have various applications in sports, emergency rescue, smart home, etc. In this paper, a new PDR method is introduced for head mounted sensors and compared to two established methods. The data were collected by sensors that were placed on glasses and embedded into a mouthguard. The results show that the newly proposed method outperforms the other two techniques in terms of accuracy, with the new method producing an average end-to-end error of 0.88 m and total distance error of 2.10%.

Community Customers

2011 ◽  
pp. 510-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Sales Process ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Specific Community

This chapter discusses the role of the project/product community in the open source product life cycle. It outlines how a community-driven approach affects not only the development process, but also (and more importantly) the marketing/sales process, the deployment, the operation, and in general the resulting software product. Participation in the community is essential for any organization using the product, leading to the concept of a community customer. Specific community participation guidelines are given to organizations and individuals who deploy and use open source software, further develop it, or offer lifetime services on the product.

Technologized Talk

2022 ◽  
pp. 558-587
Author(s):  
Erin Trauth ◽  
Ella R. Browning
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Medical Practitioner ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Wearable Technologies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Patient Use

In this study, the authors examine patient use of and feelings about wearable technologies for health attainment and management. Based on an online survey of 81 patients using wearable technologies to track and manage health, as well as interviews with three patients utilizing wearables for health management, the authors examine how wearable technologies are being used by patients to attain health, manage health, and/or prevent health issues, and what value users find in these wearable technologies. The authors also examine how such use is impacting communication between medical professionals and patients. Specifically, the authors explore how the inclusion of wearable technologies has changed the “rhetorical relationship” between patients and medical professionals. The study concludes with a discussion of the future of wearable devices in patient-medical practitioner relationships and clinical settings.

Using Value Stream Mapping to Improve Medical Device Development

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Sweem ◽  
Stan Crossett ◽  
Lori Lucke
Keyword(s):  
Medical Device ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Value Stream Mapping ◽  
Medical Device Development ◽  
Value Stream ◽  
Device Development

In this paper a method is presented for using value stream mapping for improving the development process of medical devices. Two examples are shown to demonstrate the utility of this approach.

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