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Improved Knowledge Changes the Mindset: Older Adults’ Perceptions of Care Robots
(Springer Nature, 2019-07-08)
This paper explores Finnish, German and Swedish older adults’ perceptions of a future welfare service with increased use of welfare technologies, specifically care robots. The issues are the rapid digitalization and ...
My business or not? The perspective of technology companies on shifting towards care robotics
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-08-12)
Many countries are investing in the development of robotic applications for health and elderly care services. Some care robots have already been commercialized, and new products are being prepared for future markets. ...
Robotics in Finnish welfare services: dynamics in an emerging innovation ecosystem
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-20)
This paper considers the dynamics of the emerging care robotics innovation ecosystem in the Finnish welfare services. Innovation ecosystems have both evolutionary nature as well as aspects of purposeful design, and we study ...
Elderly Care and Digital Services: Toward a Sustainable Sociotechnical Transition
(Springer, 2019-07-04)
The elderly care system’s sustainability is one of the largest societal challenges of our time. Digitalization and the implementation of technologies in elderly care are viewed as offering possible solutions to the social ...
Human-Centered Design Components in Spiral Model to Improve Mobility of Older Adults
(Springer, Cham, 2018-12-11)
As human grow older; their cognitive needs change more frequently due to distal and proximal life events. Designers and developers need to come up with better designs that integrate older users’ needs in a short period of ...
Robots as Social and Physical Assistants in Elderly Care
(Springer, 2019-07-04)
Care robots are robotic applications targeted for use in care and nursing environments, or to support independent living for the elderly and those with disabilities. Robots may provide relief to the challenge in many ...
Information ecology in digitalising welfare services: a multi-level analysis
(Emerald Publishing, 2020-12-07)
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine and reinterpret information ecology in the context of the changing environment of services, which has been strongly affected by digitalisation and increasing citizen engagement. ...
The social dimension of frugal innovation
(Inderscience, 2020-08-17)
In the layperson's mind, the term frugal innovation evokes ideas of frugality and cheap solutions. Experts share a broader understanding of frugal innovation as the ability to do more with less by increasing business and ...
A Comprehensive Framework of Usability Issues Related to the Wearable Devices
(Springer, Cham, 2020-05-20)
Wearable devices have the potential to be used for monitoring, augmenting, assisting, delivering content, and tracking in both individual and organizational contexts. Despite this potential, previous studies indicate that ...
Social Enterprise: A Study of Its Prevalence, Role and Characteristics in Swedish‐Speaking Regions of Finland
(Wiley, 2019-05-28)
An increasing literature has emerged to examine development of social enterprises (SEs) in varying national or regional contexts. This paper presents empirical research on SEs in Finland’s Swedish‐speaking regions. Differences ...