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IROS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
A multipurpose robotic wheelchair and rehabilitation device for the home
— This paper describes a novel Home Lift, Position, and Rehabilitation (HLPR) Chair, designed at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to provide independent pat...
Roger Bostelman, James S. Albus
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Investigating the usability of PDAs with ageing users
Mobile technologies have the potential to enhance the lives of ageing users, especially those who experience a decline in cognitive abilities. However, diminutive devices often pe...
Sheila Mc Carthy, Heather Sayers, Paul McKevitt
AGENTS
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Agent-Based Expert Assistance for Visual Problem Solving
This paper presents a domain-independent architecture for facilitating visual problem solving between robots or softbots and humans. The architecture de nes virtual and human agen...
Erika Rogers, Robin R. Murphy, Barb Ericson
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
MagneBike: toward multi climbing robots for power plant inspection
An ever-growing infrastructure, including existing and newly built power plants, as well as a rising environmental awareness in society call for inspection and maintenance systems...
Andreas Breitenmoser, Fabien Tâche, Gilles C...
CHINZ
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Where you point is where the robot is
It is virtually envisioned that in the near future home-service robots will be assisting people in their daily lives. While a wide spectrum of utility of home-service robots has b...
Hokyoung Ryu, Woohun Lee