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technologies from the Argentum 2020 virtual conference and suppliers

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New announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. It’s been an interesting technology week.

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Interface designers opt for cool over useful

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Starting with the older one (“ Ridiculously symmetrical and highly unusable ”) to the most recent Siri remote – where they give up on usable buttons and enable changing the channel by voice. This analysis compared the “ modern, touchscreen-laden vehicles with their button-reliant predecessors. But in the meantime, simplicity reigns.

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Selected tech trends from upcoming 2021 Market Overview

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The availability of a growing trove of data about our behavior has enabled the ever-smarter world of voice interactions and sensors. Pattern analysis, dashboards, and predictive analytics have permeated tech innovation for years, including healthcare, but have been slow to enter the world of caregiving for older adults.

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Ten Technologies for Aging and Health from CES 2024

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Our cutting-edge sensor technology enhances the capabilities of hearables and provides manufacturers with innovative features including gesture and context recognition, speech processing and voice enhancement, as well as precise head orientation tracking. It scans a person's face, primarily focusing on blood flow analysis. Learn more.

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Will robots help us in our homes – now and within 10 years?

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According to PHI analysis, the job pays so poorly today that 40% live in low-income households and 43% rely on public assistance. Consider Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot - can you say ‘ Voice control’ for kitchen floor washing? category tags: robotics , Family caregivers , Home Care. And will older adults even have a choice?

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Looking ahead to 2023 -- what should we expect?

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Observe that despite the hysteria over Amazon layoffs , voice technology has passed its hype cycle and is now present and utilized in at least 95 million US households. What has changed over time – not meriting an alert, but meriting collation for analysis? Up ahead -- CES 2023. Check it out !].

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Did you miss one? Five Tech and Aging Blog Posts from January 2022

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And in 2017, analysis was published showing the ratio of population aged 80+ to care workers, calling it the Paid Caregiver Support Ratio , or pCSR. Six recent voice innovations for older adults. Older adults benefit from voice-AI enabled innovation and deployment.

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