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Interdisciplinary design of a pervasive fall handling system: a case study

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Femke De BackereAuthors Info & Claims

PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Pages 235 - 238

https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255784

Published: 20 May 2014 Publication History

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Falls among elderly are an important concern as they impact the capability to live independently. Falls do not only have a negative impact on one's physical well-being, an increased risk of falling also has an important impact on one's psychological well-being. A context-aware fall handling system can mitigate many of the problems of falls by facilitating timely and appropriate handling of falls.

In this paper, we present the results of an early exploration of using context as part of fall detection and resolution services in Flanders, Belgium. We put specific emphasis on the role of diverse disciplines during the process and reflect on their influence on the outcomes. We believe that these reflections could be more generally applicable for interdisciplinary research projects.

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Interdisciplinary design of a pervasive fall handling system: a case study
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods
        Rapid application development

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PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

May 2014

459 pages

ISBN:9781631900112

General Chair:
Andreas Hein
OFFIS-Institute for IT, Oldenburg, Germany
,
Program Chairs:
Susanne Boll
OFFIS-Institute for IT, Oldenburg, Germany
,
Friedrich Köhler
Charité, Berlin, Germany

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering)

Brussels, Belgium

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PervasiveHealth '14: 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

May 20 - 23, 2014

Oldenburg, Germany

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