Designing and evaluating quality of life technologies: An interdisciplinary approach

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2397-2409

  Schulz, Richard ^a   Beach, Scott R ^a   Matthews, Judith Tabolt ^a   Courtney, Karen L ^b   De Vito Dabbs, Annette J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; disability; interdisciplinary collaboration; quality of life; user centered design

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; DISABILITY; EVALUATION STRATEGIES; INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS; INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SCIENTISTS; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT;

USER CENTERED DESIGN;

EID: 84864136214     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2200558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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