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.

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

Inhalt
Developing Support Technologies.- Demands and Expectations.- Forms and Contexts of Deployment.- Values and Valuation.- Prospects of a Digital Society.