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Applications to Improve Quality of Life

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  • Arminda Guerra Lopes

    (Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal & Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal)

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This article is about the creation of tools and technologies that support physical, mental, social and emotional wellbeing. Students from a polytechnic institution were challenged within a human computer interaction discipline, to set an idea and to present its design process. The objective was to create something using technology to improve people quality of life. The main goal of this article is to settle some of the reasons that lead to important and interesting outputs to the amount of unfinished or unavailable applications to be used by those who need it.

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  • Arminda Guerra Lopes, 2017. "Applications to Improve Quality of Life," International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), IGI Global, vol. 9(4), pages 12-27, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jskd00:v:9:y:2017:i:4:p:12-27
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