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Developing Support Technologies

Integrating Multiple Perspectives to Create Assistance that People Really Want

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Editors:
  1. Athanasios Karafillidis

    1. Laboratory of Manufacturing Technology, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Robert Weidner

    1. Laboratory of Manufacturing Technology, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  • Describes truly transdisciplinary approaches to the design and construction of different kinds of support technologies
  • Discusses social and ethical issues of evaluation, in combination with practical and technical ones
  • Puts special emphasis on useful methods and concepts in the context of both basic and applied research in inter- and transdisciplinary contexts

Part of the book series: Biosystems & Biorobotics (BIOSYSROB, volume 23)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Athanasios Karafillidis, Robert Weidner
    Pages 1-11

  3. Demands and Expectations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-15
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    2. Sociotechnical Assistance Ensembles. Negotiations of Needs and Acceptance of Support Technologies

      • Peter Biniok
      Pages 17-25

    3. Context-Integrating, Practice-Centered Analysis of Needs

      • Kristin Paetzold
      Pages 27-35

    4. Acceptance Through Adaptation—The Human and Technology in the Philosophical and Scientific-Historical Context of “Sinnfälligkeit”

      • Kevin Liggieri
      Pages 37-45

    5. Biomechanical Analysis: Adapting to Users’ Physiological Preconditions and Demands

      • Andreas Argubi-Wollesen, Robert Weidner
      Pages 47-61

    6. Mass Survey for Demand Analysis

      • Alexander Mertens, Katharina Schäfer, Sabine Theis, Christina Bröhl, Peter Rasche, Matthias Wille
      Pages 63-73

    7. The Burden of Assistance. A Post-phenomenological Perspective on Technically Assisted World Relations

      • Bruno Gransche
      Pages 75-82

  4. Constructing and Construing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-84
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    2. Distinguishing Support Technologies. A General Scheme and Its Application to Exoskeletons

      • Robert Weidner, Athanasios Karafillidis
      Pages 85-100

    3. On Building Responsible Robots

      • Janina Loh (née Sombetzki)
      Pages 101-108

    4. Psychological Issues for Developing Systems for Older Users

      • Rebecca Wiczorek
      Pages 109-115

    5. Attention Models for Motor Coordination and Resulting Interface Design

      • Bettina Wollesen, Laura L. Bischoff, Johannes Rönnfeldt, Klaus Mattes
      Pages 117-126

    6. The Challenge of Being Self-Aware When Building Robots for Everyday Worlds

      • Andreas Bischof
      Pages 127-135

    7. Engineering Collaborative Social Science Toolkits. STS Methods and Concepts as Devices for Interdisciplinary Diplomacy

      • Peter Müller, Jan-Hendrik Passoth
      Pages 137-145

  5. Forms and Contexts of Deployment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-148
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    2. Support Technologies for Industrial Production

      • Robert Weidner, Bernward Otten, Andreas Argubi-Wollesen, Zhejun Yao
      Pages 149-156

    3. Assistance Systems for Production Machines in the Textile Industry

      • Yves-Simon Gloy
      Pages 157-162

    4. Interests and Side Effects in the Technicization of Geriatric Care

      • Jannis Hergesell, Arne Maibaum
      Pages 163-168
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This book shows the advantages of using different perspectives and scientific backgrounds for developing support technologies that are integrated into daily life. It highlights the interaction between people and technology as a key factor for achieving this integration and discusses relevant methods, concepts, technologies, and applications suitable for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration.

The relationship between humans and technology has become much more inclusive and interdependent. This generates a number of technical, ethical, social, and practical issues. By gathering contributions from scholars from heterogeneous research fields, such as biomechanics, various branches of engineering, the social sciences, information science, psychology, and philosophy, this book is intended to provide answers to the main questions arising when support technologies such as assistance systems, wearable devices, augmented reality, and/or robot-based systems are constructed, implemented, interfaced and/or evaluated across different application contexts.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Laboratory of Manufacturing Technology, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Athanasios Karafillidis, Robert Weidner

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