Canadian Home Economics Journal articles

Recent articles from Canadian Home Economics Journal

Message from the CHEA board. (Messages).(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... Technology! Our first thoughts are computers and change. And, as Gale Smith said at the opening of our 2002 Technology@home conference held in Ottawa, even an instrument as simple as a needle is a testimonial to evolving technology. Technology is constantly changing our world. Technology...

From the english Editor. (Messages).
March 22, 2003... This issue of the Canadian Home Economics Journal takes its theme, Technology@home, from the CHEA Conference held in Ottawa in August 2002. Our featured article by Sheryl Hamilton of McGill University, The Home of the Future, Then and Now, was adapted from a keynote address made by the author...

The home of the future, then and now. (Features).
March 22, 2003... From Buckminster Fuller's 1928 Dymaxion House, to Disney and Monsanto's 1957 allplastic House of the Future, to the 1962 cartoon of future suburban bliss, The Jetsons, our visions of the home of the future are inevitably also visions of technology. This link between technology, home, and the...

Technology and dishwashers: are users still wasting water? (Research).
March 22, 2003... Abstract Technological advances have continued to improve the cleaning and water efficiency of automatic dishwashers. However, research indicates many consumers waste water and energy through their actions and decisions during the dishwashing process. To gain more current information on...

Getting connected: telehome care for patients with heart disease. (Research).
March 22, 2003... Abstract The objective of this study is to determine whether telehome monitoring of patients at high risk of hospital readmission will improve accessibility, quality and efficiency of health care. Patients with heart failure and angina at high risk of hospital readmission were telehome...