Assistive technologies for the new generation of senior citizens: the SHARE-it approach

Cortés, Ulises; Barrué, Cristian; Martínez, Alejandro Rosillo; Urdiales, Cristina; Campana, Fabrice; Annicchiarico, Roberta; Caltagirone, Carlo

doi:10.1504/ijcih.2010.034130

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“…Some of the developed robots have the goal of keeping users up to date with nursing home schedules [3] [29]; others, based on results showing that pet companions can help reduce stress and depression [11], attempt to recreate these results with a companion robot [35]. Still others assist seniors with disabilities [7].…”

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Socially Assistive Robotics

Feil-Seifer

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9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2005. ICORR 2005.

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Section: User Populationsmentioning

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Socially Assistive Robotics

Feil-Seifer

Matarić

9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2005. ICORR 2005.

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“…Healthcare systems, in particular, for the elderly and disabled, have attracted enormous attention worldwide [1]. According to World Health Organization, about 314 million people are visually impaired worldwide, and 45 million of them are blind up to 2009.…”

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An outdoor navigation aid system for the visually impaired

Fang

Dong³

et al. 2010

2010 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

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In order to provide contextual cues for the visually impaired to navigate safely in outdoor dynamic situations, an outdoor navigation aid system, AudioGuide, is developed based on a PDA in this paper. It leverages technological advances in computer vision, global positioning system (GPS), geographic information system (GIS), and auditory displays. The camera embedded in the PDA captures dynamic environmental information; landmark information along the route queried from a map database built on eSuperMap is provided with the help of the GPS. Furthermore, the route is selected based on the user's familiarity, safety, and distance and thus is optimized for the user. Sonification and auditory icons are utilized to provide intuitive navigational information and natural interactions with the user. Initial usability evaluation shows the feasibility and potential of the AudioGuide for the visually impaired people.

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“…Our proposal bares similarity with this work, but even though we share the use ontologies for representing the elements (both implemented in the OWL (W3C 2012) representation language), on the one hand our approach makes the reasoning at a class level to reason with taxonomies of concepts and relationships; and the other hand, we take into account assistive software in our process whereas the SMF does not. -The work of Chi et al (2012) is related to the presented work since they use different Artificial Intelligence techniques for similar tasks, but they provide a solution just for the problem of assistive software selection based on a decision; Corte´s et al (2003) propose the use of a Multi-Agent System to controlling and configuring a very specific assistive technology instance, an electric wheelchair, and the intelligent environment that surrounds it; and finally, Woodcock et al (2012) propose a decision support system developed to assist in the planning and evaluation of assistive technology, but not like our approach for end users in usage scenarios, but for assistive technology market stakeholders decision support.Finally, to the best of our knowledge, there is no literature concerning the performance of such architectures that realize adaptive interfaces for people with special needs. …”

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Performance assessment of an architecture with adaptative interfaces for people with special needs

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People in industrial societies carry more and more portable electronic devices (e.g., smartphone or console) with some kind of wireless connectivity support. Interaction with auto-discovered target devices present in the environment (e.g., the air conditioning of a hotel) is not so easy since devices may provide inaccessible user interfaces (e.g., in a foreign language that the user cannot understand). Scalability for multiple concurrent users and response times are still problems in this domain. In this paper, we assess an interoperable architecture, which enables interaction between people with some kind of special need and their environment. The assessment, based on performance patterns and antipatterns, tries to detect performance issues and also tries to enhance the architecture design for improving system performance. As a result of the assessment, the initial design changed substantially. We refactorized the design according to the Fast Path pattern and The Ramp antipattern. Moreover, resources were correctly allocated. Finally, the required response time was fulfilled in all system scenarios. For a specific scenario, response time was reduced from 60 seconds to less than 6 seconds.E. Gómez-Martínez Babel Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain e-mail: elena.gomez@fi.upm.es R. Gonz´alez Cabero Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain e-mail: rgonza@fi.upm.es J. Merseguer Departamento de Informa´tica e Ingenier´ıa de Sistemas, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain e-mail: jmerse@unizar.es IntroductíonUniversal Access continues being a critical quality target for Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), as Stephanidis (2001) stated, especially in industrial societies where there is a growing number of people with functional diversity, including those with aging-related conditions. Indeed, ICTs may require particular skills and abilities to interact with platforms, the plethora of wireless communication systems and smart devices such as kiosks or ATMs. The inexistence of these skills and abilities extends in some cases the traditional concept of disabled people towards people with functional diversity or special needs. The growing gap between their abilities and access to ICT is called the digital divide.The INREDIS project 1 (INterfaces for RElations between Environment and people with DISabilities) aimed to develop environments that enable the creation of communications and interaction channels between people with some kind of special need and their context, where the targets are a set of auto-discoverable devices. More than 200 researchers from 14 Spanish companies and 19 research organizations collaborated to carry out this project during 48 months and a budget of e23.6 millions.Although goal of the INREDIS project was to completely develop an accessibility architecture for disabled people, here we only focus on the analysis and design steps of the project, in particular in the performance assessment carried out. The rationale for ...

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Assistive technologies for the new generation of senior citizens: the SHARE-it approach

Cited by 25 publications

References 52 publications

Socially Assistive Robotics

Socially Assistive Robotics

An outdoor navigation aid system for the visually impaired

Performance assessment of an architecture with adaptative interfaces for people with special needs

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