Innovations in Design, Development and Evaluation of Assistive Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Assistive technologies refer to products, systems, or devices that support and assist individuals with disabilities, mobility restrictions, or impairments to perform their daily life activities more effectively. These technologies are increasingly important due to aging populations and greater expectations from people needing technological support to overcome their disabilities. The elderly living alone in their homes require technologies that ensure their safety and appropriate timely assistance when at risk. These technologies need be effective and ethical.

This Special Issue of Technologies warmly invites researchers, industrialists, clinicians, health support professionals, and anyone with an interest in the field to kindly contribute by exploring related innovations, prospects, and expectations. The rapid growth in the capabilities of artificial intelligence, miniature microprocessors with wireless transceivers, sensors, and remote monitoring has created immense innovation opportunities.

We respectfully invite you to submit an article to this Special Issue, covering assistive technologies topics such as the following:

• Artificial guide dogs.
• Artificial intelligence techniques.
• Artificial organs, e.g. artificial limbs.
• Assistive technologies for people with verbal communication difficulties.
• Co-design techniques.
• Ethical concerns and issues.
• Explorations of expectations from individuals with disabilities.
• Internet access techniques.
• Internet of things and Internet of medical things.
• Legislation and standards.
• Mobility apparatuses, such as wheelchairs.
• Navigation technologies for the blind.
• Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) processes.
• Pattern recognition and object detection.
• Rehabilitation technologies from injuries, operations, and accidents.
• Remote control.
• Remote health monitoring technologies.
• Remote sensing and monitoring.
• Review articles.
• Robotics.
• Sensors and measurement technologies.
• Signal processing techniques.
• Support aides, e.g., hearing aids.
• Supportive devices, e.g., knee braces.
• Tools to assist people with weak or limited grip abilities to operate devices.
• Tracking techniques.
• Visual and infrared imaging.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Reza Saatchi
Guest Editor

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• disabilities
• remote monitoring
• artificial intelligence
• assistive technologies