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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789568903321

Titolo

Everyday information : the evolution of information seeking in America / / edited by William Aspray and Barbara M. Hayes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

ISBN

1-283-11919-6

9786613119193

0-262-29573-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AsprayWilliam

HayesBarbara M. <1955->

Disciplina

025.5/24

Soggetti

Information behavior - United States

Information society - United States - History

Human information processing - History

Information retrieval - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

100 years of car buying / William Aspray -- Informed giving : information on philanthropy in everyday life / Barbara Hayes -- Airline travel : a history of information seeking behavior by leisure and business passengers / Rachel Little, Cecelia Williams, and Jeffrey Yost -- Genealogy as a hobby / James Cortada -- Sports fans and their information gathering habits : how media technologies have brought fans closer to their teams over time / Jameson Otto, Sara Metz, and Nathan Ensmenger -- Information in the hobby of gourmet cooking : four contexts / Jenna Hartel -- The transformation of public information in the United States / Gary Chapman and Angela Newell -- Active readership : the case of the American comic reader / George Royer,  Beth Nettels, and William Aspray -- Information exchange and relationship maintenance among American youth : the case of text messaging / Arturo Longoria, Gesse Stark-Smith, and Barbara Hayes.

Sommario/riassunto

An intimate, everyday perspective on information-seeking behavior, reaching into the social context of American history and American homes.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557611703321

Autore

de Fátima Domingues Maria

Titolo

Wearable and BAN Sensors for Physical Rehabilitation and eHealth Architectures

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering & technology

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The demographic shift of the population towards an increase in the number of elderly citizens, together with the sedentary lifestyle we are adopting, is reflected in the increasingly debilitated physical health of the population. The resulting physical impairments require rehabilitation therapies which may be assisted by the use of wearable sensors or body area network sensors (BANs). The use of novel technology for medical therapies can also contribute to reducing the costs in healthcare systems and decrease patient overflow in medical centers. Sensors are the primary enablers of any wearable medical device, with a central role in eHealth architectures. The accuracy of the acquired data depends on the sensors; hence, when considering wearable and BAN sensing integration, they must be proven to be accurate and reliable solutions. This book is a collection of works focusing on the current state-of-the-art of BANs and wearable sensing devices for physical rehabilitation of impaired or debilitated citizens. The manuscripts that compose this book report on the advances in the research related to different sensing technologies (optical or electronic) and body area network sensors (BANs), their design and implementation, advanced signal processing techniques, and the application of these technologies in areas such as physical rehabilitation, robotics, medical diagnostics, and therapy.