The Work-at-Home Technology Boon and its Consequences

Homes get smarter. New technology a boon for stay-at-home seniors.

echnology will be at the forefront as service providers prepare for the baby boomer retirement wave. The 50+ population is the fastest-growing segment in the world, with a life expectancy of 78.2 years — a record high. According to The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Age Lab, every seven seconds an American turns 50. Persons, 87 percent of those 65 or older want to remain in their homes...

Home-based Healthcare Technology Understanding and Designing to Support the Care Management Work at Home

Sustaining daily, unsupervised healthcare activities in non-clinical settings such as the private home can challenge, among others, older adults. To support such unsupervised care activities, an increasingly number of reminders and monitoring systems are being designed. However, most of these systems target a specific treatment or condition and might not be sufficient to support the care manage...

Internet Privacy: At Home and At Work

This article is a tutorial on Internet privacy. The objective of the tutorial is to inform users of the Internet how and why their use of the Internet can be monitored. The focus of the tutorial is Internet privacy at home and in the work place. The tutorial has three major sections: Technical Background, Privacy At Home, and Privacy At Work. The At Home section is concerned with personal priva...

The Basic Theorem and its Consequences

Let T be a compact Hausdorff topological space and let M denote an n–dimensional subspace of the space C(T ), the space of real–valued continuous functions on T and let the space be equipped with the uniform norm. Zukhovitskii [7] attributes the Basic Theorem to E.Ya.Remez and gives a proof by duality. He also gives a proof due to Shnirel’man, which uses Helly’s Theorem, now the paper obtains a...

Information Technology at Work