Yoshinori Kuno
ABSTRACT
Although several robotic/intelligent wheelchairs have been proposed recently,they consider friendliness only to their users. Machines like wheelchairs interact various people other than their users. They must consider friendliness to all these people. This paper presents a robotic wheelchair that cares for all relevant people: users, pedestrians, and caregivers, by looking at these people. It looks at the user's face, observing its direction. The user can turn it by looking in his/her desired direction. It looks at pedestrians and changes the way of avoidance against them depending on whether or not their noticing it. In addition, it looks at the caregiver when he/she is with it and keeps moving with him/her.
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- Kuno, Y., Ishiyama, T., Nakanishi, S., and Shirai, Y. Combining observations of intentional and unintentional behaviors for human-computer interaction, in Proceedings of CHI '99 (Pittsburgh PA, May 1999), ACM Press, 238-245. Google ScholarDigital Library
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- Nakanishi, S., Kuno, Y., Shimada, N., and Shirai, Y. Robotic wheelchair based on observations of both user and environment, in Proceedings 1999 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (Kyongju, Korea, Oct. 1999), 912-917.Google ScholarCross Ref
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- Robotic wheelchair looking at all people
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