Gestures used by intelligent wheelchair users

  • Authors:
  • Dimitra Anastasiou;Christoph Stahl

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science/Languages Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Bremen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICCHP'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the modality of gestures in communication between an intelligent wheelchair and a human user. Gestures can enable and facilitate human-robot interaction (HRI) and go beyond familiar pointing gestures considering also context-related, subtle, implicit gestural and vocal instructions that can enable a service. Some findings of a user study related to gestures are presented in this paper; the study took place at the Bremen Ambient Assisted Living Lab, a 60m2 apartment suitable for the elderly and people with physical or cognitive impairments.