...Nigel Newbutt; Julia S Clark; Kenneth J. Turner Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate an approach to automating goals for supporting home care, with a view to understanding user experience when defining such goals and hence identifying improvements that could be made to the approach...

...Kenneth J. Turner Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to devise a general solution that allows a policy-based (i.e. rule-based) management system to explain its operation. In particular, a solution has been developed and evaluated in the context of an automated home care system. Design...

... electronic tracking Communication and emergency response technologies Demonstration study Home care People with dementia In Sweden the vast majority of older people live in their own homes with help from family members and/or friends, neighbours and relatives. Despite a history of a generous...

...Marilyn R. McGee‐Lennon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a synthesized overview of empirical work carried out in the MultiMemoHome Project in the area of designing multimodal reminders for home care. The paper aims to present an overview of multimodal interaction techniques and how...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Home care Technology Mobile communication systems Disabled people Over the past 15 years, mobile phone ownership and use have rocketed in the developed world. A phone has become a constant companion to the majority of people, including increasing...