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Personal Digital Assistants [PDF]
Journal of Digital Imaging, 2004 Personal digital assistant sales are growing exponentially, and as medical technology advances the amount of information available becomes staggering, making a handheld device, with the ability to store a great amount of information, progressively more valuable to health care providers.
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Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2023 In Norway, user-controlled personal assistance (UPA) is a right for children under the age of 18. Based on the independent living (IL) ideology, the intention of UPA is to provide the person with user control, independence and more.
Øyvind Ibrahim Marøy Snipstad +1 more
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International Journal of Applied Sciences and Smart Technologies, 2021 Since the boom in science and technology, humans have been trying to invent machines that could reduce their efforts in day to day activities. In this paper, we develop a personal assistant robot that could pick up objects and return it to the user. The robot is controlled using an android application in mobile phones.
Ziany Alpholicy X +3 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2014 The hybridization of the welfare services has resulted in the emergence of a market of service providers for personal assistance in the Scandinavian countries. We describe and analyse two different aspects of the market development.
Jan Andersen +2 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2020 During the last decade, personal assistance programs have suffered from cutbacks, resulting in a public debate about the future of the service. This debate has largely been framed by public commission estimations of the level of incorrect personal ...
Niklas Altermark, Hampus Nilsson
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International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, 2022 Abstract: In today’s modern world, our daily life has been more linked with technology. Over time the advancement in technology is unmatched. The project that we have built is a personal voice assistant. It works on voice input and displays the output through voice or text.
Siddhi Gupta +4 more
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Towards solidarity: working relations in personal assistance
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2014 This article explores personal assistance from the assistants' perspectives. Many assistants are satisfied with their work and the possibility to combine the work with other activities on a flexible basis.
Ingrid Guldvik +2 more
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Personal assistance in a Scandinavian context: similarities, differences and developmental traits
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2014 Personal assistance (PA) has been characterized as a melting pot consisting of, on the one hand, a social rights discourse with its basis among disabled people, and, on the other hand, a consumer directed market discourse increasingly putting its stamp ...
Ole Petter Askheim +2 more
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Empowerment and personal assistance – resistance, consumer choice, partnership or discipline?
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2014 The concept of empowerment has been closely linked to the development of personal assistance (PA) and the independent living ideology. However, the use of the concept of empowerment has been disputed as it has begun to be used in both the marketization ...
Inge Storgaard Bonfils +1 more
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Differential Acmeological Approach to The Design of Psychological Support for Professional and Personal Development of Pedagogical University Students [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2020 The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of psychological assistance models functioning in Russian universities. The study objective is to identify and substantiate the provisions of the differential acmeological approach as the basis ...
Postavnev Vladimir M. +4 more
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