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Development of intelligent wheelchairs for persons with severe disabilities: what I can do is beautiful

Published: 23 April 2007 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe development of electric powered wheelchairs for persons with severe disability who can not drive currently commercialized wheelchairs. One of the important approaches of this development is closing the gap between persons with severe disability and advanced technologies; such as voice recognition, image recognition, EMG detection, stereo vision technologies. Each advanced technologies was involved into human interface and security system of the electric powered wheelchairs. All of them were evaluated with actual users in real world of the use. In order to make success on development of orphan products, it was revealed that user participation is important.

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Satoh, Y, et al.: Development of Computer Vision-based Intelligent Electric Wheelchair System, RESNA 2006.
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  • (2011)Current Development Trend of Assistive ProductsJournal of the Society of Mechanical Engineers10.1299/jsmemag.114.1115_751114:1115(751-754)Online publication date: 2011

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i-CREATe '07: Proceedings of the 1st international convention on Rehabilitation engineering & assistive technology: in conjunction with 1st Tan Tock Seng Hospital Neurorehabilitation Meeting
April 2007
272 pages
ISBN:9781595938527
DOI:10.1145/1328491
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Published: 23 April 2007

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  1. activity and participation
  2. human interface
  3. independent mobility
  4. pattern recognition
  5. user participation

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  • (2011)Current Development Trend of Assistive ProductsJournal of the Society of Mechanical Engineers10.1299/jsmemag.114.1115_751114:1115(751-754)Online publication date: 2011

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