User Modeling and Command Language Adapted for Driving an Intelligent Wheelchair

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2014

Autores

faria, bm (Autor) Outra; reis, lp (Autor) FCUP; lau, n (Autor) Outra

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, ICARSC 2014

Páginas: 158-163

IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC)

Espinho, PORTUGAL, MAY 14-15, 2014

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 5 Citações

Scopus - 6 Citações

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências exactas e naturais > Ciências da computação e da informação

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-009-Q4D

DOI: 10.1109/ICARSC.2014.6849779

Abstract (EN): The importance and concern given to the autonomy and independence of elderly people and patients suffering from some kind of disability has been growing significantly in the last few decades. Intelligent wheelchairs (IW) are technologies that can increase the autonomy and independence of this kind of population and are nowadays a very active research area. This paper presents a Data Analysis System (DAS) that provides an adapted command language to an user of the IW. This command language is a set of input sequences that can be created using inputs from an input device or a combination of the inputs available in a multimodal interface. The results show that there are statistical evidences to affirm that the mean of the evaluation of the DAS is higher than the mean of the evaluation of the command language recommend by the health specialist (p value = 0.002) with a sample of 11 cerebral palsy users. This work demonstrates that it is possible to adapt an intelligent wheelchair interface to the user even when the users present heterogeneous and severe physical constraints.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 6