Exploring & designing tools to enhance falls rehabilitation in the home

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1233-1242

  Uzor, Stephen ^a   Baillie, Lynne ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Falls; Games; Rehabilitation; Usability; User centered; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DESIGNING TOOLS; FALLS; GAMES; OLDER ADULTS; THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS; USABILITY; USER-CENTERED; VISUAL TOOLS;

FLOW VISUALIZATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PATIENT REHABILITATION; VISUALIZATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84877933397     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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