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An investigation into the effectiveness of using acoustic touch to assist people who are blind.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
Wearable smart glasses are an emerging technology gaining popularity in the assistive technologies industry. Smart glasses aids typically leverage computer vision and other sensory information to translate the wearer's surrounding into computer ...
Howe Yuan Zhu   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Views and Needs of People With Parkinson Disease Regarding Wearable Devices for Disease Monitoring: Mixed Methods Exploration

open access: yesJMIR Formative Research, 2022
BackgroundWearable devices can diagnose, monitor, and manage neurological disorders such as Parkinson disease. With a growing number of wearable devices, it is no longer a case of whether a wearable device can measure Parkinson ...
Lorna Kenny   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wearable and Mobile Devices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Information and Communication Technologies, known as ICT, have undergone dramatic changes in the last 25 years. The 1980s was the decade of the Personal Computer (PC), which brought computing into the home and, in an educational setting, into the classroom.
de Freitas, S., Levene, M.
openaire   +1 more source

Electrodermal Activity Sensor for Classification of Calm/Distress Condition

open access: yesSensors, 2017
This article introduces a new and unobtrusive wearable monitoring device based on electrodermal activity (EDA) to be used in health-related computing systems.
Roberto Zangróniz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of social media with or without wearable devices to improve physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior: A randomized controlled trial of Chinese postgraduates

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
The present study was aimed to verify whether an integrating of wearable activity tracker device and a social media intervention strategy would be better than a standalone social media intervention for improving physical activity (PA) and reducing ...
Jiaqi Li   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bioengineered Textiles and Nonwovens – the convergence of bio-miniaturisation and electroactive conductive polymers for assistive healthcare, portable power and design-led wearable technology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Today, there is an opportunity to bring together creative design activities to exploit the responsive and adaptive ‘smart’ materials that are a result of rapid development in electro, photo active polymers or OFEDs (organic thin film electronic devices),
Oliver, Raymond   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Wearable Hand Orthotic Device for Rehabilitation: Hand Therapy with Multi-Mode Control and Real-Time Feedback

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
IoT-based wearable devices are significantly contributing to personalized and pervasive modern healthcare. Traditional healthcare systems are handicapped by several factors, including shortages of physicians, nurses, healthcare devices, hospital beds ...
Rajesh Kannan Megalingam   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Printable magnesium ion quasi-solid-state asymmetric supercapacitors for flexible solar-charging integrated units. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Wearable and portable self-powered units have stimulated considerable attention in both the scientific and technological realms. However, their innovative development is still limited by inefficient bulky connections between functional modules ...
Kaner, Richard B   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Adding generic contextual capabilities to wearable computers [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Context-awareness has an increasingly important role to play in the development of wearable computing systems. In order to better define this role we have identified four generic contextual capabilities: sensing, adaptation, resource discovery, and ...
Pascoe, Jason
core   +3 more sources

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