Synthesis Lectures on
Assistive, Rehabilitative, and
Health-Preserving Technologies

Editor

Ron Baecker, University of Toronto

Advances in medicine allow us to live longer, despite the assaults on our bodies from war, environmental damage, and natural disasters. The result is that many of us survive for years or decades with increasing difficulties in tasks such as seeing, hearing, moving, planning, remembering, and communicating.

This series provides current state-of-the-art overviews of key topics in the burgeoning field of assistive technologies. We take a broad view of this field, giving attention not only to prosthetics that compensate for impaired capabilities, but to methods for rehabilitating or restoring function, as well as protective interventions that enable individuals to be healthy for longer periods of time throughout the lifespan. Our emphasis is in the role of information and communications technologies in prosthetics, rehabilitation, and disease prevention.

Assistive Technology Design for Intelligence Augmentation

Stefan Carmien

2016

Body Tracking in Healthcard

Kenton O’Hara, Cecily Morrison, Abigail Sellen, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, and Cathy Craig

2016

Designed Technologies for Healthy Aging

Claudia B. Rebola

2015

Fieldwork for Healthcare: Guidance for Investigating Human Factors in Computing Systems

Dominic Furniss, Rebecca Randell, Aisling Ann O’Kane, Svetlena Taneva, Helena Mentis, and Ann Blandford

2014

Fieldwork for Healthcare: Case Studies Investigating Human Factors in Computing Systems

Dominic Furniss, Aisling Ann O’Kane, Rebecca Randell, Svetlena Taneva, Helena Mentis, and Ann Blandford 2014

Interactive Technologies for Autism

Julie A. Kientz, Matthew S. Goodwin, Gillian R. Hayes, and Gregory D. Abowd 2013

Patient-Centered Design of Cognitive Assistive Technology for Traumatic Brain Injury Telerehabilitation

Elliot Cole

2013

Zero Effort Technologies: Considerations, Challenges, and Use in Health, Wellness, and Rehabilitation

Alex Mihailidis, Jennifer Boger, Jesse Hoey, and Tizneem Jiancaro

2011

Design and the Digital Divide: Insights from 40 Years in Computer Support for Older and Disabled People

Alan F. Newell

2011