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Independent Living Support for Disabled and Elderly People using Cell Phones

Independent Living Support for Disabled and Elderly People using Cell Phones

Begoña García Zapirain, Amaia Mendez Zorrilla
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781466639867|ISBN10: 1466639865|EISBN13: 9781466639874
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch020
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Zapirain, Begoña García, and Amaia Mendez Zorrilla. "Independent Living Support for Disabled and Elderly People using Cell Phones." Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services, edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, et al., IGI Global, 2013, pp. 379-397. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch020

APA

Zapirain, B. G. & Zorrilla, A. M. (2013). Independent Living Support for Disabled and Elderly People using Cell Phones. In M. Cruz-Cunha, I. Miranda, & P. Gonçalves (Eds.), Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services (pp. 379-397). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch020

Chicago

Zapirain, Begoña García, and Amaia Mendez Zorrilla. "Independent Living Support for Disabled and Elderly People using Cell Phones." In Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services, edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Isabel Maria Miranda, and Patricia Gonçalves, 379-397. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch020

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Abstract

This chapter presents a technological solution to promote and help independent access to work for disabled people using Smart Phones. A deep state of the art about smart phones technologies and about examples of other projects is presented. The aim is to develop a form of technical assistance that supports them in the control of schedules, prevention of dangerous areas in the work place, warnings, and automatic alarm generation. The device chosen to exchange all this information is a Smartphone based on Android Operating System and GPS technology. A set of Android applications have been developed using Java language, and controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries. All of these are connected to the Server Application through the Communications Module. The server Application Module provides the assistants or psychologists the possibility of supervise all the handicapped people’s activities. The assistants, psychologists, and users have all evaluated the application very positively as it covers disabled people’s needs perfectly.

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