Multimodal Interface for an Intelligent Wheelchair Page 1 FACULDADE DE ENGENHARIA DA
UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO Multimodal Interface for an Intelligent Wheelchair Filipe Joaquim …

Since the demographics of population, with respect to age, are continuously changing,
politicians and scientists start to pay more attention to the needs of senior individuals …

Nowadays more than 700 million persons around the world have some kind of disability or
handicap. During the last decades the elderly population in most of the European countries …

With the rising concern about the needs of people with physical disabilities and with the
aging of the population there is a major concern of creating electronic devices that may …

Since the demographics of population, with respect to age, are continuously changing,
politicians and scientists start to pay more attention to the needs of senior individuals …

The independence and autonomy of both elderly and disabled people has been a growing
concern of today's society. Therefore, wheelchairs have proven to be fundamental for the …

This article focuses on evaluating the usability of an intelligent wheelchair (IW) in both real
and simulated environments. The wheelchair is controlled at a high-level by a flexible …

Standard Interfaces have limited accessibility. Multimodal user interfaces combine various
input and output modalities (including seeing/vision, hearing/audition, haptic/tactile …

Driving an Electric-powered wheelchair requires a specific set of motor, visual and cognitive
skills. One of the options is the use of wheelchair simulators to train the driving of the …

Older adults (≥ 65 years) are the most prevalent wheelchair users in North America but
many cannot safely drive a wheelchair due to physical/cognitive impairments. Intelligent …