Design of Assistive Technology for Ageing Populations
暫譯: 老年人口輔助技術設計

本書專注於有關老化的各個研究面向，包括輔助技術、老化的尊嚴、技術如何支持對身體老化和認知變化經驗的更深入理解、與老年人相關的行動問題以及新興技術。

80歲以上的年齡群體代表著一個不斷擴大的市場，估計每年價值達214億美元。每個人都受到這一人口結構變化的影響——我們正在變老，可能會成為照顧者——我們需要為更長的生命做好準備並調整我們的環境。產品、服務和環境正在因應人口變化而改變。

本書展示國際設計研究，以展示塑造設計的思維和理念，是設計師、產品開發者、雇主、老年學家以及醫療、健康和服務提供者等的寶貴資源，同時也適合所有對老化感興趣的人士。

Professor Andree Woodcock holds a Chair in Educational Ergonomics and Design and is located in the Centre for Mobility and Transport. She has been awarded grants in excess of £10 million since I came to Coventry University in 1999, mainly from RCUK and in collaboration with UK and European partners. These have included research on the design of polysensory school environments for children with ASD, an analysis of the involvement of children in the redesign of schools as part of the Building Schools for the Future Programme, the use of social networking by informal groups, the spontaneous, voluntary contrbutions of citizens to urban regeneration (VoiceYourView), and the development of a patient held record system (MyCare).She has developed a user testing toolkit for SMEs (IDEAL-ALIP project) and a decision support system for SMEs moving into the assistive technology market (COMODAL).Transport related research has included looking at the in car safety and security of female car occupants, an analysis of HMI of electric vehicles, an stakeholder analysis of an electric bus, a review of social transport and the leadership of an FP7 project to develop a Pan European tool to measure the quality of the passenger experience (METPEX). She currently leads a 4 year H2020CIVITAS pproject looking at capacity building in small to medium local authorities wishing to implement sustainable transport measures.She is also currently building a portfolio of work Prof McDonagh on empathic design and ageing.

Dr Louise Moody is the Associate Head for Research, and Reader in User-Centred Health Design in the School of Art and Design at Coventry University. She has a background in psychology and human factors that has been applied predominantly to design for health. Her research is focused on the development of products, interventions and services to benefit health and wellbeing. She employs a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods as well as art and design approaches to ensure that new products, systems, services and interventions are functional as well as being desirable, usable and acceptable to users and stakeholders.

Dr Deana McDonagh, is Professor of Industrial Design in the School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and faculty at the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology. She is an experienced design practitioner and entrepreneur. She is an Empathic Design Research Strategist who focuses on enhancing quality of life for all through more intuitive and meaningful products, leading to emotional sustainability. Her research concentrates on emotional user-product relationships and how empathy can bring the designer closer to users' authentic needs, ensuring both functional and emotional needs are met by products. She is a Research Fellow at Coventry University (UK), Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University and Director of Research and Insight for Herbst Produkt design consultancy (USA). She is the Designer Entrepreneur-in-Residence (start-up incubator) at the Research Park, and Designer in Residence at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) where she provides design guidance.

Dr. Lakhmi C. Jain, PhD, ME, BE(Hons), Fellow (Engineers Australia) is with the Faculty of Education, Science, Technology & Mathematics at the University of Canberra, Australia and Bournemouth University, UK. Professor Jain founded the KES International for providing a professional community the opportunities for publications, knowledge exchange, cooperation and teaming. Involving around 5,000 researchers drawn from universities and companies world-wide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generate synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the area of KES. His interests focus on the artificial intelligence paradigms and their applications in complex systems, security, e-education, e-healthcare, unmanned air vehicles and intelligent agents.

安德里·伍德科克教授擔任教育人體工學與設計的講座教授，並位於流動性與交通中心。自1999年我來到考文垂大學以來，她已獲得超過1000萬英鎊的資助，主要來自RCUK，並與英國和歐洲的合作夥伴合作。這些研究包括為自閉症譜系障礙（ASD）兒童設計多感官學校環境的研究、作為未來學校建設計劃的一部分，分析兒童在學校重新設計中的參與、非正式團體使用社交網絡的情況、市民自發自願參與城市再生（VoiceYourView），以及開發病人持有的記錄系統（MyCare）。她為中小企業（SMEs）開發了一個用戶測試工具包（IDEAL-ALIP項目）和一個支持中小企業進入輔助技術市場的決策支持系統（COMODAL）。與交通相關的研究包括研究女性車輛乘客的車內安全與安保、電動車的人機介面分析、一個電動巴士的利益相關者分析、社會交通的回顧，以及領導一個FP7項目以開發一個泛歐洲工具來衡量乘客體驗的質量（METPEX）。她目前領導一個為期四年的H2020 CIVITAS項目，專注於希望實施可持續交通措施的小型至中型地方政府的能力建設。她目前也在與麥克唐納教授合作，建立一個關於同理心設計與老齡化的工作組合。

路易絲·穆迪博士是考文垂大學藝術與設計學院的研究副院長及以用戶為中心的健康設計的讀者。她擁有心理學和人因工程的背景，主要應用於健康設計。她的研究專注於開發有助於健康和福祉的產品、干預措施和服務。她採用多種定性和定量研究方法，以及藝術和設計方法，以確保新產品、系統、服務和干預措施不僅功能性強，還能滿足用戶和利益相關者的期望、可用性和接受度。

迪娜·麥克唐納博士是伊利諾伊大學（厄本那-香檳）藝術與設計學院的工業設計教授，並在貝克曼高級科學與技術研究所任教。她是一位經驗豐富的設計實踐者和企業家。她是一位同理心設計研究策略師，專注於通過更直觀和有意義的產品提升所有人的生活質量，從而實現情感可持續性。她的研究集中於情感用戶-產品關係，以及同理心如何使設計師更接近用戶的真實需求，確保產品滿足功能和情感需求。她是考文垂大學（英國）的研究員，西北大學的兼任教授，以及美國Herbst產品設計顧問公司的研究與洞察總監。她是研究園區的設計企業家駐校（初創企業孵化器），並在伊利諾伊大學（厄本那-香檳）的貝克曼高級科學與技術研究所擔任駐校設計師，提供設計指導。

拉克米·C·賈因博士，博士，碩士，榮譽學士，澳大利亞工程師協會院士，任職於澳大利亞坎培拉大學的教育、科學、技術與數學學院及英國伯恩茅斯大學。賈因教授創立了KES國際，為專業社群提供出版、知識交流、合作和團隊合作的機會。KES涉及約5000名來自全球大學和公司的研究人員，促進國際合作並在教學和研究中產生協同效應。KES定期通過其領域內最大的會議之一為專業社群提供網絡機會。他的興趣集中於人工智慧範式及其在複雜系統、安全性、電子教育、電子醫療、無人飛行器和智能代理中的應用。