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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Human-robot symbiotic systems have been studied extensively in recent years, considering
that robots will play an important role in the future welfare society [Ueno, 2001]. The use of …

The purpose of this chapter is twofold: on one hand, it aims at defining a clear framework for
the design and implementation of autonomous wheelchairs, highlighting the main …

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