Journal of Healthcare Engineering

Accessibility, Inclusion, and Rehabilitation Using Information Technologies


Publishing date
01 Jul 2019
Status
Published
Submission deadline
08 Mar 2019

1Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Spain

2Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark

3Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK


Accessibility, Inclusion, and Rehabilitation Using Information Technologies

Description

Social exclusion occurs when individuals or even entire communities of people are blocked from rights, opportunities, and resources and prevented them from full participation in the activities of the society in which they live.

The purpose of this special issue is to publish recent advances in development accessibility, inclusion, and rehabilitation using Information Technologies. The term Information Technologies in context to this special issue refers in general to the development and use of computer systems, software, and networks in relation to issues of accessibility, inclusion, and/or rehabilitation. The call for articles reflects advancements and opportunities brought about in this field through technical innovations alongside adoption and inquiry by those practicing and/or researching in this important field associated with healthcare and societal well-being. Examples of such opportunities are the pervasiveness and wide uptake by training personnel, in academia and in research enquiring of societal impact and end-user benefit in treatment programs sensors technologies. This twenty-first century work investigates and applies technologies that have become affordable and commercially available following game industries uptake and developments since the turn of the century and thereafter. However, it should be emphasized that this is only an example and authors are encouraged to make their own case according to their specific research that aligns with the general framework of the call for this special issue, such as prevention, diagnosis, therapy, rehabilitation, long-term care, and telemedicine.

The research articles must address the problems related to the application of information technologies in accessibility to enable people with functional limitation to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, in inclusion for people with different abilities and preferences and in rehabilitation.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Design, evaluation, and use of IT to benefit people with disabilities (sensory, motor, and cognitive impairments/multiple disabilities) and elderly people
  • Information technologies to accessibility to enable people with functional limitation to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish
  • IT for the inclusion for people with different abilities and preferences
  • IT for rehabilitation
  • eHealth for public health and eHealth for aging
  • Assisted living technologies
  • Image and video processing on eHealth
  • Robotics on eHealth
  • Practical applications of eHealth

Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 9460536
  • - Editorial

Accessibility, Inclusion, and Rehabilitation Using Information Technologies

Antoni Jaume-i-Capó | Yolanda González-Cid | ... | Stuart Cunningham
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 6406813
  • - Research Article

Prediction of the Spinal Musculoskeletal Loadings during Level Walking and Stair Climbing after Two Types of Simulated Interventions in Patients with Lumbar Disc Herniation

Shengzheng Kuai | Xinyu Guan | ... | Wenyu Zhou
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 8924273
  • - Research Article

Assessing Wellbeing in People Living with Dementia Using Reminiscence Music with a Mobile App (Memory Tracks): A Mixed Methods Cohort Study

Stuart Cunningham | Mark Brill | ... | Richard Picking
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 9167028
  • - Research Article

Effects of Focal Vibration over Upper Limb Muscles on the Activation of Sensorimotor Cortex Network: An EEG Study

Wei Li | Chong Li | ... | Linhong Ji
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 9780587
  • - Clinical Study

Effects of a Game-Based Virtual Reality Video Capture Training Program Plus Occupational Therapy on Manual Dexterity in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Carmen Nélida Waliño-Paniagua | Cristina Gómez-Calero | ... | Roberto Cano-de-la-Cuerda
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2019
  • - Article ID 4290957
  • - Research Article

Integrated System for Monitoring Muscular States during Elbow Flexor Resistance Training in Bedridden Patients

Taojin Xu | Zhongwei Jiang | ... | Hongbin Xu

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