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Inclusive Design of Wearable Smart Objects for Older Users: Design Principles for Combining Technical Constraints and Human Factors

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The purpose of this article is to propose an evaluation of integration principles between constraints resulting from the choice of technologies to be used on devices, and human needs deriving from the needs analysis of the elderly, in the field of wearable smart objects design for self-sufficient and non-self-sufficient users. The authors will describe this process according to the state of progress of HABITAT project.

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  1. TekneHub – Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Via Saragat 13, Ferrara, Italy

    Giuseppe Mincolelli, Michele Marchi & Silvia Imbesi

  2. CIRI SDV, Alma Mater Studiorum, Viale del Risorgimento 2, Bologna, Italy

    Lorenzo Chiari, Elena Borelli & Sabato Mellone

  3. CIRI ICT, Alma Mater Studiorum, Viale del Risorgimento 2, Bologna, Italy

    Alessandra Costanzo, Diego Masotti & Giacomo Paolini

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Correspondence to Giuseppe Mincolelli , Michele Marchi , Lorenzo Chiari , Alessandra Costanzo , Elena Borelli , Sabato Mellone , Diego Masotti , Giacomo Paolini or Silvia Imbesi .

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Mincolelli, G. et al. (2019). Inclusive Design of Wearable Smart Objects for Older Users: Design Principles for Combining Technical Constraints and Human Factors. In: Di Bucchianico, G. (eds) Advances in Design for Inclusion. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 776. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94622-1_31

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