Design considerations for a personalized wheelchair navigation system.
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.
Ding
Dan
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Dept. of Rehabilitation Science and Technology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. dad5@pitt.edu.
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Bambang
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Karimi
Hassan A
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Roongpiboonsopit
Duangduen
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Pramana
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Conahan
Thomas
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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