Developing Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities
Papers from the 1996 Fall Symposium
Holly Yanco, Program Cochair
Technical Report FS-96-05. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Using Adjustable Autonomy to Extend the Independence of the Elderly / 1
R. Peter Bonasso
Applying Natural Language Processing Techniques to Speech Prostheses / 5
Ann Copestake
Progess on the Deictic Controlled Wheelchair / 12
Jill D. Crisman and Michael E. Cleary
Opportunities for AI in the Use of Computer-Based Cognitive Prosthetics / 19
Mark B. Friedman and Elliot Cole
Towards an Intelligent Interface for EagleEyes / 24
James Gips
The TAO Project: Intelligent Wheelchairs for the Handicapped / 28
Takashi Gomi
Object Recognition with FM Sonar; An Assistive Device for Blind and Visually-Impaired People / 38
Gordon Kao, Penny Probert and David Lee
Multimodal HCI for Robot Control: Towards an Intelligent Robotic Assistant for People with Disabilities / 46
Zunaid Kazi, Shoupu Chen, Matthew Beitler, Daniel Chester and Richard Foulds
Personal Adaptive Mobility Aid (PAM-AID) for the Infirm and Elderly Blind / 53
Gerard Lacey and Kenneth M. Dawson-Howe
Wearable Tetherless Computer-Mediated Reality: WearCam as a Wearable Face-Recognizer, and Other Applications for the Disabled / 62
Steve Mann
The Intelligent Parser Generator: An Intelligent Language Aid for People with Cognitive Impairments / 70
Kathleen F. McCoy, Patrick Demasco, John Gray, Christopher A. Pennington, Marjeta Cedilnik, Arlene Luberoff Badman and Clifford Kushler
A Writing Tool for Users of American Sign Language / 78
Kathleen F. McCoy, Christopher A. Pennington and Linda Z. Suri
Moving in Tandem: Automated Person Pacing for Wheelchair Users / 86
David P. Miller
Saliency in Human-Computer Interaction / 89
Polly K. Pook
Design Issues for an Assitance Service with Force Feedback / 95
Christophe Ramstein and Jean-Francois Arcand
Using Probabilistic Reasoning to Develop Automatically Adapting Assistive Technology Systems / 104
Richard C. Simpson, Simon P. Levine and Heidi Horstmann Koester
Real-Time American Sign Language Recognition from Video Using Hidden Markov Models / 109
Thad Starner and Alex Pentland
Towards Automatic Translation from Japanese into Japanese Sign Language / 117
Masaaki Tokuda and Manabu Okumura