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Body Tracking in Healthcare

By: Kenton O'Hara,Cecily Morrison,Abigail Sellen,Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze,Cathy Craig

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Body Tracking in Healthcare

By: Kenton O'Hara,Cecily Morrison,Abigail Sellen,Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze,Cathy Craig

Within the context of healthcare, there has been a long-standing interest in understanding the posture and movement of the human body. Gait analysis work over the years has looked to articulate the patterns and parameters of this movement both for a normal healthy body and in a range of movement-based disorders. In recent years, these efforts to understand the moving body have been transformed by significant advances in sensing technologies and computational analysis techniques all offering new ways for the moving body to be tracked, measured, and interpreted. While much of this work has been largely research focused, as the field matures, we are seeing more shifts into clinical practice. As a consequence, there is an increasing need to understand these sensing technologies over and above the specific capabilities to track, measure, and infer patterns of movement in themselves. Rather, there is an imperative to understand how the material form of these technologies enables them also to be situated in everyday healthcare contexts and practices. There are significant mutually interdependent ties between the fundamental characteristics and assumptions of these technologies and the configurations of everyday collaborative practices that are possible them. Our attention then must look to social, clinical, and technical relations pertaining to these various body technologies that may play out in particular ways across a range of different healthcare contexts and stakeholders. Our aim in this book is to explore these issues with key examples illustrating how social contexts of use relate to the properties and assumptions bound up in particular choices of body-tracking technology. We do this through a focus on three core application areas in healthcare—assessment, rehabilitation, and surgical interaction—and recent efforts to apply body-tracking technologies to them.

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135

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Springer Nature

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3031016009

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9783031016004

The Myth of the Paperless Office

By: Abigail J. Sellen,Richard H. R. Harper

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The Myth of the Paperless Office

By: Abigail J. Sellen,Richard H. R. Harper

An examination of why paper continues to fill our offices and a proposal for better coordination of the paper and digital worlds. Over the past thirty years, many people have proclaimed the imminent arrival of the paperless office. Yet even the World Wide Web, which allows almost any computer to read and display another computer's documents, has increased the amount of printing done. The use of e-mail in an organization causes an average 40 percent increase in paper consumption. In The Myth of the Paperless Office, Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper use the study of paper as a way to understand the work that people do and the reasons they do it the way they do. Using the tools of ethnography and cognitive psychology, they look at paper use from the level of the individual up to that of organizational culture. Central to Sellen and Harper's investigation is the concept of "affordances"—the activities that an object allows, or affords. The physical properties of paper (its being thin, light, porous, opaque, and flexible) afford the human actions of grasping, carrying, folding, writing, and so on. The concept of affordance allows them to compare the affordances of paper with those of existing digital devices. They can then ask what kinds of devices or systems would make new kinds of activities possible or better support current activities. The authors argue that paper will continue to play an important role in office life. Rather than pursue the ideal of the paperless office, we should work toward a future in which paper and electronic document tools work in concert and organizational processes make optimal use of both.

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MIT Press

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0262250497

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9780262250498

The Myth of the Paperless Office

By: Abigail J. Sellen,Richard H. R. Harper

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By: Abigail J. Sellen,Richard H. R. Harper

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Body Tracking in Healthcare

By: Kenton O'Hara,Cecily Morrison,Abigail Sellen,Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze,Cathy Craig

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By: Kenton O'Hara,Cecily Morrison,Abigail Sellen,Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze,Cathy Craig

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Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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1627059504

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Connecting Families

The Impact of New Communication Technologies on Domestic Life

By: Carman Neustaedter,Steve Harrison,Abigail Sellen

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Connecting Families

The Impact of New Communication Technologies on Domestic Life

By: Carman Neustaedter,Steve Harrison,Abigail Sellen

New technologies are radically changing the way that families connect with one another: we can text our teenagers from work, eat dinner with far-away parents via video link, and instantly upload and share photos after a family day out. Whether we are bridging time or distance, and whether we are enhancing our closest relationships or strengthening the bonds of extended family, as computer technologies alter the communication landscape, they in turn are changing the way we conduct and experience family life. This state of the art volume explores the impact of new communication systems on how families interact – how they share their lives and routines, engage in social touch, and negotiate being together or being apart – by considering a range of different family relationships that shape the nature of communication. Composed of three sections, the first looks at what is often the core of a ‘family’, the couple, to understand the impact of technology on couple relationships, communication, and feelings of closeness. The second section studies immediate families that have expanded beyond just the individual or couple to include children. Here, the emphasis is on connection for communication, coordination, and play. The third section moves beyond the immediate family to explore connections between extended, distributed family members. This includes connections between adult children and their parents, grandparents and grandchildren, and adult siblings. Here family members have grown older, moved away from ‘home’, and forged new families. Researchers, designers and developers of new communication technologies will find this volume invaluable. Connecting Families: The Impact of New Communication Technologies on Domestic Life brings together the most up-to-date studies to help in understanding how new communication technologies shape – and are shaped by – family life, and offers inspiration and guidance for design by making clear what families need and value from technological systems.

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196

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Springer Science & Business Media

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144714192X

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The Book of Abigail and John

Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

By: Abigail Adams,John Adams

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Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

By: Abigail Adams,John Adams

The story of the Adamses as lovers, domestic partners, and patriots comes to life in this collection of their intimate correspondence.

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428

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0674078543

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9780674078543

Book's by Abigail Sellen

Body Tracking in Healthcare

Body Tracking in Healthcare

The Myth of the Paperless Office

The Myth of the Paperless Office

The Myth of the Paperless Office

The Myth of the Paperless Office

Body Tracking in Healthcare

Body Tracking in Healthcare

Connecting Families

Connecting Families

The Book of Abigail and John

The Book of Abigail and John

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