1. Design Considerations for a Personalized Wheelchair Navigation System
- Author
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Gede Pramana, Bambang Parmanto, Thomas Conahan, Duangduen Roongpiboonsopit, Hassan A. Karimi, Piyawan Kasemsuppakorn, and Dan Ding
- Subjects
Engineering ,business.industry ,Navigation system ,ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS ,Equipment Design ,Radio navigation ,Motor Activity ,Computer security ,computer.software_genre ,User-Computer Interface ,Wheelchair ,Wheelchairs ,Human–computer interaction ,Personal Autonomy ,Quality of Life ,Global Positioning System ,Humans ,TRIPS architecture ,Disabled Persons ,The Internet ,business ,computer ,Disadvantage ,Wireless internet access - 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.
- Published
- 2007