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

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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.

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Assets '05: Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
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  1. design space
  2. field study
  3. interactive agents
  4. needs
  5. older adults
  6. software components
  7. user involvement

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