Smarter wheelchairs who can talk to each other: An integrated and collaborative approach

Junjun Kong; Jiannong Cao; Yang Liu; Yao Guo; Weizhong Shao

doi:10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379477

Smarter wheelchairs who can talk to each other: An integrated and collaborative approach

Junjun Kong, Jiannong Cao, Yang Liu, Yao Guo, Weizhong Shao

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

Pervasive computing technologies can benefit the injured, disabled or elderly people in their daily lives, and smart wheelchair has been a representative of this kind of technologies. However, most existing smart wheelchairs have limitations on extensibility and flexibility of building new functionalities. One big reason is they are just stand-alone ones considering other wheelchairs and surrounding things as dummy objects. To address this issue, we proposed an integrated and collaborative approach: Smarter Wheelchairs that can "talk" to each other, and even "talk" to other things in the surrounding. Smarter Wheelchairs take advantages of smart objects deployed in living environment or hospital environment. Smarter Wheelchairs can harness functions provided by smart objects, therefore, their functionality can be flexibly extended. We have implemented and evaluated a prototype system of Smarter Wheelchairs to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of our approach.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2012
Pages	522-525
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379477
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2012
Event	2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2012 - Beijing, China Duration: 10 Oct 2012 → 13 Oct 2012

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Conference	2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2012
Country/Territory	China
City	Beijing
Period	10/10/12 → 13/10/12

Keywords

collaboration
context-awareness
integration
Smart wheelchair
Ubiquitous Interacting Object (UIO)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biomedical Engineering
Health Informatics
Health Information Management

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Smarter wheelchairs who can talk to each other: An integrated and collaborative approach. / Kong, Junjun; Cao, Jiannong; Liu, Yang et al.
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