title: Design considerations for a personalized wheelchair navigation system.
abstract: Individuals with mobility impairments such as wheelchair users are often at a disadvantage when traveling to a new place, as their mobility can be easily affected by environmental barriers, and as such, even short trips can be difficult and perhaps impossible. We envision a personalized wheelchair navigation system based on a PDA equipped with wireless Internet access and GPS that can provide adaptive navigation support to wheelchair users in any geographic environment. Requirements, architectures and components of such a system are described in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Rehabilitation Science and Technology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. dad5@pitt.edu.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Bambang
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Parmanto
authors.forename: Hassan A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Karimi
authors.forename: Duangduen
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Roongpiboonsopit
authors.forename: Gede
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pramana
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Conahan
authors.forename: Piyawan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kasemsuppakorn
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011788:Quality of Life; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014910:Wheelchairs