Journal of Assistive Technologies: Volume 8 Issue 2

Expectations and user experience of a multimodal medicine management system for older users

Marja Harjumaa, Igone Idigoras, Minna Isomursu, Ainara Garzo

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the adoption of a multimodal medication management system (MMS) targeted on older people and home care professionals. The paper aims to…

An assistive household robot – doing more than just cleaning

Julia Kantorovitch, Janne Väre, Vesa Pehkonen, Arto Laikari, Heikki Seppälä

The purpose of this paper is to create new ideas for assistive technology products at home, especially products utilizing robotic consumer appliances available in the homes of…

See ColOr: an extended sensory substitution device for the visually impaired

Juan D. Gomez, Guido Bologna, Thierry Pun

The purpose of this paper is to overcome the limitations of sensory substitution methods (SSDs) to represent high-level or conceptual information involved in vision, which are…

Virtual reality as orientation and mobility aid for blind people

Orly Lahav

The purpose of this paper is to examine the past 15 years of research and development (R&D) on the role of virtual environments (VEs) as an orientation and mobility (O&M) aid to…

Editorial

Chris Abbott