Acoustic user interfaces for ambient-assisted living technologies

Informatics for Health and Social Care

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 125-143

  Goetze, Stefan ^a   Moritz, Niko ^a   Appell, Jens E ^a   Meis, Markus ^b   Bartsch, Christian ^c   Bitzer, Jörg ^a,c  

^a FRAUNHOFER IDMT   (Germany)

^b Hearing Centre Oldenburg GmbH   (Germany)

^c JADE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic interfaces; ambient assisted living technology; speech recognition; user centred design

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMINDER SYSTEM;

AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMINDER SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78650053685     PISSN: 17538157     EISSN: 17538165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17538157.2010.528655     Document Type: Article

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