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Assistive Technology and Artificial Intelligence

Applications in Robotics, User Interfaces and Natural Language Processing

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  1. Vibhu O. Mittal
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  2. Holly A. Yanco
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  3. John Aronis
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  4. Richard Simpson
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1458)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  6. Providing intelligent language feedback for augmentative communication users

    • Christopher A. Pennington, Kathleen F. McCoy
    Pages 59-72

  7. Saliency in human-computer interaction

    • Polly K. Pook
    Pages 73-83

  8. A wearable computer based American sign language recognizer

    • Thad Starner, Joshua Weaver, Alex Pentland
    Pages 84-96

  10. An augmentative communication interface based on conversational schemata

    • Peter B. Vanderheyden, Christopher A. Pennington
    Pages 109-125

  11. Assistive robotics: An overview

    • David P. Miller
    Pages 126-136

  12. Progress on the deictically controlled wheelchair

    • Jill D. Crisman, Michael E. Cleary
    Pages 137-149

  13. Developing intelligent wheelchairs for the handicapped

    • Takashi Gomi, Ann Griffith
    Pages 150-178

  14. Integrating vision and spatial reasoning for assistive navigation

    • William S. Gribble, Robert L. Browning, Micheal Hewett, Emilio Remolina, Benjamin J. Kuipers
    Pages 179-193

  15. Speech and gesture mediated intelligent teleoperation

    • Zunaid Kazi, Shoupu Chen, Matthew Beitler, Daniel Chester, Richard Foulds
    Pages 194-210

  16. Personal adaptive mobility aid for the infirm and elderly blind

    • Gerard Lacey, Shane Mac Namara, Kenneth M. Dawson-Howe
    Pages 211-220

  17. HITOMI: Design and development of a Robotic Travel Aid

    • Hideo Mori, Shinji Kotani, Noriaki Kiyohiro
    Pages 221-234

  18. NavChair: An assistive wheelchair navigation system with automatic adaptation

    • Richard C. Simpson, Simon P. Levine, David A. Bell, Lincoln A. Jaros, Yoram Koren, Johann Borenstein
    Pages 235-255

  20. Back Matter

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About this book

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.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Assistive Technology and Artificial Intelligence

  • Book Subtitle: Applications in Robotics, User Interfaces and Natural Language Processing

  • Editors: Vibhu O. Mittal, Holly A. Yanco, John Aronis, Richard Simpson

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055965

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-64790-4Published: 15 July 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-68678-1Published: 18 August 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 281

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence

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