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Designing Augmented, Domestic Environments to Support Ageing in Place

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Assistive Augmentation

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[S]tereotypes are useful for camouflaging the social arrangements which we impose upon the aged members of our society.

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Durick, J., Leung, L. (2018). Designing Augmented, Domestic Environments to Support Ageing in Place. In: Huber, J., Shilkrot, R., Maes, P., Nanayakkara, S. (eds) Assistive Augmentation. Cognitive Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6404-3_7

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