Advances in Assistive Technologies

This book aims at exposing its readers to some of the most significant advances in assistive technologies. Assistive technologies develop devices to assist vulnerable people, including elderly people, people with cognitive disabilities such as memory problems or dementia, and people with functional disabilities such as those needing support in toileting, moving around, eating, bathing, dressing, grooming, and taking personal care. The ever-increasing life expectancy and world population, along with the emergence of new diseases and the regrettable continuation of armed conflicts, press for development and availability of assistive technologies that offer people in need the opportunity to live secure and controlled lives with more active participation in society and at a reduced assistive cost. This task can be accomplished only with more advanced devices than traditional-powered wheelchairs or eating/drinking devices, including prosthetics, exoskeletons, visual and hearing aids, cognitive aids, and devices enhanced with artificial intelligence. The book consists of an editorial note and an additional twelve (12) chapters, all of which have been written by authors who work on the corresponding chapter theme and are recognized for their significant research contributions. In more detail, the chapters in the book are organized into four parts, namely (i) Advances in Assistive Technologies in Healthcare, (ii) Advances in Assistive Technologies in Medical Diagnosis, (iii) Advances in Assistive Technologies in Mobility and Navigation, and (iv) Advances in Privacy and Explainability in Assistive Technologies. This research book is directed towards professors, researchers, scientists, engineers, and students in assistive technologies. It is also directed towards readers who come from other disciplines and is interested in becoming versed in some of the most recent assistive technologies. An extensive list of bibliographic references at the end of each chapter guides its readers to probe further into the application areas of interest to them.

Presents recent research on Assistive Technologies Presents Selected Papers in Honour of Professor Nikolaos G. Bourbakis Vol. 3 Written by experts in the field

Résumé
"The trilogy is useful to either the specialized researcher seeking information on specific sub areas within these disciplines or the newcomer who seeks to get involved in these disciplines. ... I warmly congratulate the editors for their superb work. I highly and wholeheartedly recommend the trilogy to professors, graduate students, practitioners and other specialists in artificial intelligence-based technologies and assistive technologies, and to general readers, all of whom, I am sure, will benefit greatly from it in their research endeavor." (Du Zhang, Intelligent Decision Technologies, Vol. 16 (1), 2022)

Contenu
Chapter 1: Introduction To Advances In Assistive Technologies.- Chapter 2: Applications of AI in Healthcare and Assistive Technologies.- Chapter 3: Machine Learning and Finite Element Methods in Modeling of COVID-19 spread.- Chapter 4: Learning Paradigms for Neural Networks for Automated Medical Diagnosis.- Chapter 5: Human Fall Detection in Depth-Videos using Temporal Templates and Convolutional Neural Networks.