An assistive home care environment for people with special needs.
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2002-09-09
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We have developed a system for supporting people with special needs It allows remote monitoring of electrocardiographic and other signals together with multimode environmental control The multimodal approach allows users with disabilities to interact more with the home environment Telemedicine devices were integrated into the system to provide a link to health services The system provided support for the independent living of people with special needs The pilot site was a rehabilitation service attached to the National Paraplegic Hospital of Toledo Spain During the six week trial period the system did not fail nor was any unauthorized access reported Twelve people with special needs and three staff evaluated aspects of the system on a scale from 0 to 9 on which higher scores indicated a positive assessment The mean score for efficiency was 7 8 for satisfaction 8 for helpfulness 7 4 for controllability 7 2 and for learnability 8