Engineering Handbook of Smart Technology for Aging, Disability, and Independence (eBook)

Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, PhD, is a Professor in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department (CISE) at the University of Florida. His research interests span the areas of pervasive and mobile computing, assistive environments, and health telematics. Mounir Mokhtari, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Institut TELECOM (formerly GET/INT) in France. His research activity focuses on human-machine interaction, rehabilitation robotics, and health telematics. Bessam Abdulrazak, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. His research interests include ubiquitous and pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, smart spaces, assistive technologies, and rehabilitation robotics.

"This text is a resource for researchers, professionals, and
graduate students in computer science, rehabilitation science, and
clinical engineering." (IEEE Microwave Magazine, June
2009)

"This handbook contains 49 papers, each approximately 20 pages
in length. The eight-part volume covers introductory papers and
policies, user needs and assistive technology, man-machine
interaction, robot aids, user mobility, smart environmental
technology, smart infrastructural applications, and standards and
guidelines in design. Taken as a whole, the work offers a good
introduction and survey of the needs and available technological
remediation for the elderly and the disabled. The back cover of the
volume includes the following statement: "This book is an
indispensable resource for researchers and professionals in
computer science, rehabilitation science, and clinical engineering.
It also serves as a valuable textbook for graduate students in the
aforementioned fields." However, this book is too much of a
hodge-podge to be used for academic course work, and it lacks the
content to be of much use to researchers and professionals in
computer science. Summing Up: Recommended. Medical libraries
serving professionals and practitioners." - A.
M. Strauss, Vanderbilt University (CHOICE, March
2009)