An IoT Environment for the Development of Assistive Applications in Smart Cities

Rendulich, Jorge; Garay, Jorge R. B.; Zegarra, Milagros; Vizcarra, Isaac G. G.; Kofuji, Sérgio Takeo

doi:10.1109/scla.2019.8905513

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“…The concept of smart cities [34] has allowed exploring new initiatives that consider the DP within social infrastructure projects and urban services; however, the results must be evidenced in the long term.…”

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Assistive Devices: Technology Development for the Visually Impaired

Garay

Zea-Vargas

Huallpa

et al. 2021

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Technology has been contributing significantly to the development of assistive devices for disabled persons (DPs). Many of these devices aim to assist people who are blind or visually impaired, providing them with friendlier ways to interact with their surroundings (obstacles, objects, and navigation). However, the high cost of these devices makes it difficult for DPs to purchase them. The development of an assistive device kit to be used by the visually impaired in controlled environments (indoor) or urban spaces (outdoor) is presented in this work with a didactic and detailed approach. This low-cost kit (USD 50 per device) consists of a Smart Cane, Smart Cap, and Smart Glove. The methodology addressed aims to support and encourage the reproduction, customization, and manufacture of new assistive devices with low cost and wide applicability. The devices are functional, benefit usability, and, due to the characteristics of the project and the materials used in their construction, do not impact the ergonomics of the visually impaired or disabled person who may use these devices. The devices that integrate the assistive kit can be used independently or combined. In addition to having detection, fall-control, navigation, and real-time tracking functions, they are independent of additional local infrastructure for their use.

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Assistive Devices: Technology Development for the Visually Impaired

Garay

Zea-Vargas

Huallpa

et al. 2021

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“…There is a growing body of literature either solely devoted to or mentioning the use of microservices architectures in healthcare, in particular in health information systems (HIS) (Mavrogiorgou et al, 2021), mobility (Melis et al, 2016;Rendulich et al, 2019;Mukhiddinov and Cho, 2021), physiotherapy (Caporuscio et al, 2017;Postolache et al, 2019), and elderly patients care (Dobre et al, 2021;Panchea et al, 2021). Furthermore, there is a growing awareness of the importance of flexible software architectures in assistive technologies as the Web becomes even more ubiquitous (Yesilada and Harper, 2019).…”

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Design principles of an open-source language modeling microservice package for AAC text-entry applications

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Gutkin²

2022

Ninth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT-2022)

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We present MozoLM, an open-source language model microservice package intended for use in AAC text-entry applications, with a particular focus on the design principles of the library. The intent of the library is to allow the ensembling of multiple diverse language models without requiring the clients (user interface designers, system users or speech-language pathologists) to attend to the formats of the models. Issues around privacy, security, dynamic versus static models, and methods of model combination are explored and specific design choices motivated. Some simulation experiments demonstrating the benefits of personalized language model ensembling via the library are presented.

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