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A demonstration of a conversationally guided smart wheelchair

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Beth A. Hockey,

David P. MillerAuthors Info & Claims

Assets '07: Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

Pages 243 - 244

https://doi.org/10.1145/1296843.1296893

Published: 15 October 2007 Publication History

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There is a substantial population of wheelchair users who do not have the motor capabilities needed to efficiently operate a power wheelchair on their own. Various interfaces have been devised including some simple voice controlled chairs that can understand simple commands. However, such systems are awkward and slow to use. This demonstration shows operation of a smart wheelchair through a spoken conversational interface. By using a more capable dialogue, rather than a simple command paradigm, the chair can leverage off of the user's perceptual capabilities in order to process natural, high-level commands such as take me to the desk, which initiates a conversation with the chair to determine which desk and -if it is not immediately detected by the chair's sensors - where the desk is located.

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October 2007

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ISBN:9781595935731

DOI:10.1145/1296843

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Williams TJohnson CScheutz MKuipers BLarson KWinikoff MDas SDurfee E(2017)A Tale of Two ArchitecturesProceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems10.5555/3091125.3091313(1360-1368)Online publication date: 8-May-2017
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Williams TScheutz M(2017)The state-of-the-art in autonomous wheelchairs controlled through natural languageRobotics and Autonomous Systems10.1016/j.robot.2017.07.01696:C(171-183)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2017
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Carrington P(2015)Developing a chairable computing platform to support power wheelchair usersACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing10.1145/2809904.2809911(30-33)Online publication date: 29-Jul-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2809904.2809911
Kron ERayner MSantaholma MBouillon PLisowska AClark SKing T(2008)Making speech look like text in the Regulus development environmentProceedings of the Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks10.5555/1611546.1611548(9-16)Online publication date: 24-Aug-2008
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