Developing Support Technologies - Integrating Multiple Perspectives to Create Assistance that People Really Want

This book shows the advantages of using different perspectives and scientific backgrounds for developing support technologies that are integrated into daily life. It highlights the interaction between people and technology as a key factor for achieving this integration and discusses relevant methods, concepts, technologies, and applications suitable for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration.
The relationship between humans and technology has become much more inclusive and interdependent. This generates a number of technical, ethical, social, and practical issues. By gathering contributions from scholars from heterogeneous research fields, such as biomechanics, various branches of engineering, the social sciences, information science, psychology, and philosophy, this book is intended to provide answers to the main questions arising when support technologies such as assistance systems, wearable devices, augmented reality, and/or robot-based systems are constructed, implemented, interfaced and/or evaluated across different application contexts.

List of contents

Developing Support Technologies.- Demands and Expectations.- Forms and Contexts of Deployment.- Values and Valuation.- Prospects of a Digital Society.

Summary

This book shows the advantages of using different perspectives and scientific backgrounds for developing support technologies that are integrated into daily life. It highlights the interaction between people and technology as a key factor for achieving this integration and discusses relevant methods, concepts, technologies, and applications suitable for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration.
The relationship between humans and technology has become much more inclusive and interdependent. This generates a number of technical, ethical, social, and practical issues. By gathering contributions from scholars from heterogeneous research fields, such as biomechanics, various branches of engineering, the social sciences, information science, psychology, and philosophy, this book is intended to provide answers to the main questions arising when support technologies such as assistance systems, wearable devices, augmented reality, and/or robot-based systems are constructed, implemented, interfaced and/or evaluated across different application contexts.

Product details

• Assisted by: Athanasio Karafillidis (Editor), Athanasios Karafillidis (Editor), Weidner (Editor), Weidner (Editor), Robert Weidner (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030018351
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3001835-1
• No. of pages: 299
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 23 mm x 243 mm
• Weight: 626 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 299 p. 44 illus., 28 illus. in color.
• Series: Biosystems & Biorobotics; Biosystems & Biorobotics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Operating systems, user interfaces; Management, Arbeitsmedizin, B, Management: Innovation, Business and Management, Biomedizinische Technik, computer science, Social & ethical issues, Innovation/Technology Management, Quality of Life, Occupational health, Research & development management, digital age, Quality of Life Research, Industrial Management, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Biomedical engineering, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, User interfaces (Computer systems), Occupational medicine, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine, Innovation and Technology Management, Simulation Techniques, Engineering Practices, Responsibility in Sociotechnical Arrangements