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A fundamental priority of modern societies is to provide assistance to vulnerable people, including elderly people, people with cognitive disabilities, such as memory problems or dementia, and people with functional disabilities, such as those needing support in toileting, moving around, eating, bathing, dressing, grooming and taking personal care. Assistive Technologies is the term used to describe devices developed in order to assist vulnerable people. As life expectancy and the World population constantly increase, the need is becoming more and more pressing for development and availability of more advanced Assistive Technologies, which offer to vulnerable people the opportunity to live secure and controlled lives with active participation in society and at a reduced assistive cost. Such Assistive Technologies include prosthetics, exoskeletons, visual and hearing aids, cognitive aids and other devices possibly enhanced with Artificial Intelligence. The book at hand aims at exposing its readers to some of the most significant advances in Assistive Technologies and originated as an honour to a recognized researcher in Assistive Technologies, namely Professor Nikolaos G. Bourbakis. As such, the book is directed towards professors, researchers, scientists, engineers and students in all related disciplines. It is also directed towards readers who come from other disciplines and are interested in becoming versed in some of the most recent advances in Assistive Technologies. An extensive list of bibliographic references at the end of each chapter guides the readers to probe further into the application areas of interest to them.
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Bourbakis, N.G., Esposito, A., Tsihrintzis, G.A., Virvou, M., Jain, L.C. (2022). Introduction to Advances in Assistive Technologies. In: Tsihrintzis, G.A., Virvou, M., Esposito, A., Jain, L.C. (eds) Advances in Assistive Technologies. Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87132-1_1
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