Assistive Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Applications in Robotics, User Interfaces and Natural Language Processing

✍ Scribed by Kathleen F. McCoy (auth.), Vibhu O. Mittal, Holly A. Yanco, John Aronis, Richard Simpson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 551
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1458 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes a carefully arranged selection of revised papers on assistive technology, first presented at related AAAI workshops between 1995 and 1998.
The book is devoted to the advancement and use of AI stimulated technology that can help users extend their current range of cognitive and sensory abilities or overcome their motor disabilities. Among various issues in the interdisciplinary area of assistive technology, the papers address topics from natural language processing, planning, robotics, user interface design, computer vision, and learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Interface and language issues in intelligent systems for people with disabilities....Pages 1-11
Iconic language design for people with significant speech and multiple impairments....Pages 12-32
Lexicon for computer translation of American sign language....Pages 33-49
On Building Intelligence into EagleEyes....Pages 50-58
Providing intelligent language feedback for augmentative communication users....Pages 59-72
Saliency in human-computer interaction....Pages 73-83
A wearable computer based American sign language recognizer....Pages 84-96
Towards automatic translation from Japanese into Japanese sign language....Pages 97-108
An augmentative communication interface based on conversational schemata....Pages 109-125
Assistive robotics: An overview....Pages 126-136
Progress on the deictically controlled wheelchair....Pages 137-149
Developing intelligent wheelchairs for the handicapped....Pages 150-178
Integrating vision and spatial reasoning for assistive navigation....Pages 179-193
Speech and gesture mediated intelligent teleoperation....Pages 194-210
Personal adaptive mobility aid for the infirm and elderly blind....Pages 211-220
HITOMI: Design and development of a Robotic Travel Aid....Pages 221-234
NavChair: An assistive wheelchair navigation system with automatic adaptation....Pages 235-255
Wheelesley: A robotic wheelchair system: Indoor navigation and user interface....Pages 256-268

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)