User Modeling and Command Language Adapted for Driving an Intelligent Wheelchair

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2014

Authors

faria, bm (Author) Other; reis, lp (Author) FCUP; lau, n (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

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

Pages: 158-163

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

Espinho, PORTUGAL, MAY 14-15, 2014

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: 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.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6