Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Prerequisites: Assistive Technologies Between User Centered Assistance and 'Technicalization'; References; 2 Living Safely and Actively in and Around the Home: Four Applied Examples from Avatars and Ambient Cubes to Active Walkers; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 DALIA-Assistant for Daily Life Activities at Home; 2.2.1 Overview and Aims; 2.2.2 Implementation; 2.2.3 Evaluation and Feedback; 2.2.4 Conclusion and Lessons Learnt; 2.3 RelaxedCare-Unobtrusive Connection in Care Situations; 2.3.1 Overview and Aims; 2.3.2 Implementation; 2.3.3 Evaluation and Feedback.

2.3.4 Conclusion and Lessons Learned2.4 Confidence-Mobility Safeguarding Assistance Service with Community Functionality for People with Dementia; 2.4.1 Overview and Aims; 2.4.2 Evaluation and Feedback; 2.4.3 Conclusion and Lessons Learned; 2.5 iWalkActive-The Active Walker for Active People; 2.5.1 Overview and Aims; 2.5.1.1 Why iWalkActive?; 2.5.1.2 Problems Identified by the End Users; 2.5.2 Implementation; 2.5.2.1 E-drive; 2.5.2.2 Localisation; 2.5.2.3 Seamless Transition; 2.5.2.4 Open Data Integration; 2.5.2.5 Navigation; 2.5.3 Evaluation and Feedback; 2.5.3.1 Lab Tests.

2.5.3.2 User Field Trials2.5.4 Conclusion and Lessons Learned; Acknowledgments; References; 3 Using Gaze Control for Communication and Environment Control: How to Find a Good Position and Start Working; Abstract; 3.1 Who Can Use Gaze Control?; 3.2 Why Is Communication Important?; 3.3 How Gaze Control Works; 3.4 Gaze Control as an Access Method; 3.5 What Are the Prerequisites for Using Gaze Control?; 3.6 How to Achieve Good Positioning; 3.7 What to Watch Out for in Tests; 3.8 How Does Environment Control Work?; 3.9 Training Materials for Gaze Control; 3.10 Summary; Acknowledgments; References.

4 Caring TV-for Older People with Multimorbidity Living Alone: Positive Feedback from Users in Berlin and Rural Mecklenburg-West Pomerania4.1 Background; 4.2 Selected Research Results on the Use of Technology; 4.3 Our Study; 4.3.1 Group Discussions on Specific Topics for Caring TV; 4.3.2 Acceptance of Tablet PCs; 4.3.3 Study Aim and Questions that Arose; 4.3.4 Methods; 4.3.4.1 Sample Recruitment; 4.3.5 Data Collection; 4.3.6 Data Analysis; 4.3.7 Ethics; 4.3.8 The Caring TV Intervention; 4.3.9 Selected Findings of Our Interviews; 4.3.9.1 Previous Experience with the Technology.

4.3.10 Scheduling of the Shows4.3.11 Usefulness in Everyday Life; 4.3.12 Problems; 4.3.13 The Future; 4.4 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 5 Arm Rehabilitation at Home for People with Stroke: Staying Safe: Encouraging Results from the Co-designed LifeCIT Programme; 5.1 Rationale; 5.2 Rehabilitation Mechanisms Promoting Recovery; 5.3 Technology at Home-Design and Implementation; 5.4 Perceptions of Existing and Future Arm Rehabilitation Devices; 5.5 LifeCIT: An Example of an Upper Limb Rehabilitation Technology-Research Evidence for CIMT and Clinical Use.

This book describes how assistive technology can help handicapped, elderly and acutely sick people to manage their daily lives better and stay safe in the home. It discusses how safety is understood from an ethical, technical and social perspective, and offers examples of the problems that users, their helpers and professional carers have with assistive technology in everyday situations. The book provides insights from user-centred research and uses photographs to illustrate the main topic: how users and technology can work together to ensure safety. User-focused and combining experience with research, the book will interest users of these kinds of technology, health professionals who might introduce and/or prescribe them, engineers who develop and sell assistive technological gadgets, and architects who build safe homes? as well as researchers and students who work in these fields. It provides an overview of the existing technology, examines ways to test its effectiveness from the point of view of users, health professionals and researchers from different fields (architecture, education, engineering, facility management, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, rehabilitative medicine, physiotherapy, social science and speech therapy), and lists useful addresses, websites and literature.