A. Rodrigues, Vinicius Kruger da Costa, R. Cardoso, Márcio Bender Machado, Marcelo Bender Machado, T. Tavares
{"title":"Evaluation of a Head-Tracking Pointing Device for Users with Motor Disabilities","authors":"A. Rodrigues, Vinicius Kruger da Costa, R. Cardoso, Márcio Bender Machado, Marcelo Bender Machado, T. Tavares","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3056552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3056552","url":null,"abstract":"People with disabilities generally do not have the same access to health care, education and employment opportunities. It is known that, very often, they do not receive the support they need, and end up experiencing the taste of exclusion to perform their daily activities. Analyzing the overall rates of people with disabilities, it is possible to perceive that social inclusion of minorities is not a simple task. One of these daily activities is the use of information technology. Considering the cost of commercial Assistive Technology devices are very expensive for developing countries like Brazil, we proposed a comparative evaluation between the low-cost wearable head-based device and the performance values obtained in Kurauchi et al. [8] work, to analyses the viability of this low-cost device. This Experimental results indicate that IOM presented a better accuracy than the two other devices, providing accurate mouse pointer positioning. Even though the speed of the low-cost IOM device was very similar than the devices analyzed and compared, the most significant result was the low-cost device accuracy was 100%, error rate was 0%.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122540039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fast Head-Shoulder Proposal for Scare-Aware Pedestrian Detection","authors":"Tian-Rui Liu, T. Stathaki","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3076202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3076202","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a scare-aware pedestrian detection method assisted by a fast head-shoulder detection process to pre-estimate the candidate regions that may contain target pedestrians. Based on the observation that human head-shoulder regions share relatively robust features, we propose a head-shoulder detector using six aggregated feature channels. Motivated by fact that visual appearance of the large-size and small-size pedestrians are significantly different, we apply a scale-aware detection mechanism. Two detectors are used, each focuses on the detection of either large-size or small-size pedestrians. The detection results from two detectors are weighted combined so that final detection results can be reinforced by a proper detector with respect to the size of the candidate pedestrian.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116725047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reminder objects in the connected home of the future and beyond","authors":"Martina Uhlig, Henrik Rieß, Peter Klein","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3064949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3064949","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents best practices of how to design reminder objects. Reminder objects are digitally augmented everyday objects which break down and communicate complex information via sensory input and output. In the first section of this paper, we introduce reminder objects --what they are and how they work. We describe our understanding of computing and the interaction between humans and technology in detail in the second section. In section three, we present our vision how reminder objects can enrich the user's experience by combining different objects. We show corresponding examples of our work in this field in the two following sections. Two scenarios -- checking the weather and navigating the city -- will illustrate our understanding of reminder objects. The paper concludes with a discussion of the presented work and an outlook about the future of reminder objects.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129791789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling Human Adaptation in Repeated Collaborative Tasks","authors":"S. Nikolaidis, S. Srinivasa","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3076211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3076211","url":null,"abstract":"This short paper summarizes a game-theoretic model of human partial adaptation to the robot. We model the human as following a best-response strategy to the robot action, based on theor own, possibly distorted, reward function. The model allows the robot to take informative actions, in order to teach the human its capabilities.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116358644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interactive Assistive Framework for Maximum Profit Routing in Public Transportation in Smart Cities","authors":"B. Armaselu, O. Daescu","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3064962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3064962","url":null,"abstract":"We design an interactive framework for public transportation route planning in order to maximize the total profit (i.e. revenue minus costs). The framework allows specification of fixed points of interest (urban or tourism), each with a time avalability constraint (in hours), as well as a fleet count of public transportation vehicles. The main contributions of the framework are two approximation algorithms. The first algorithm, based on bin packing, has an approximation ratio of ⋍ 26 log T, where T is a constant denoting the latest deadline (in hours). The second algorithm is based on well-separated pair decompositions and has an approximation ratio of ⋍ 15 log T. While our algorithms may seem to have rather high approximation ratios, in practice they work well and, in the majority of cases, the profit obtained is at least 80% of the optimum. Our framework can be used to simulate the route planning in a Google Maps API environment. The algorithms were tested on a real-world dataset, and we also present the experimental results in this dataset.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126372648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Framework to Design Successful Clinical Decision Support Systems","authors":"D. Zikos","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3064960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3064960","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents seven principles for successful modeling of the clinical process, forming a framework for clinical decision support systems design. Modeling methods should incorporate data interactions during clinical decisions and should mimic the cognitive skills of clinicians. Predictive models need to be interactive, regenerating predictions in response to new clinical information, or clinician feedback. Any decision support method needs to consider trends of physiological measurements. Temporal trends can be stronger predictors of health outcomes, than cross sectional values. Finally, clinical decision support methods should be outcomes based, in an effort to avoid a 'historical decision' bias. These principles, can contribute to optimized modeling methodologies in healthcare settings, improving the response of health systems to decision making challenges.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125602720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survey Data Analysis for Repositioning, Transferring, and Personal Care Robots","authors":"Kavita Krishnaswamy, S. Moorthy, T. Oates","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3056558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3056558","url":null,"abstract":"Robotic aids can perform repositioning, transferring, and personal care tasks and increase independence of persons who have reduced motor functionality. Our goal is to develop robotic aids by actively involving the target population, their caregivers, family members, and friends in the design process to increase user acceptability through participatory design. We conducted a survey to explore the needs for robotic aids and to evaluate the perceived pros and cons of prototypes that we have designed and built in simulation. Survey responses will help us to build a physical robotic system that will improve the quality of life for individuals with disabilities and their caregivers.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121969596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards Autonomous Grasping with Robotic Prosthetic Hands","authors":"Aykut Özgün Önol, T. Padır","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3076188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3076188","url":null,"abstract":"For an effective use of a robotic prosthetic, smooth transition between the states of this human-in-the-loop cyber-physical system (or autonomous operation) is crucial. In order to achieve that, taking into account the uncertainties in the robotic system may be as significant as anticipating the human intent. In this study, we present two risk measures associated with a simple grasping task based on the pre-grasp position and orientation of the robotic hand, and analyze them by using a model of a dexterous mechatronic prosthetic arm to simulate a simple grasping task. Moreover, we develop a hybrid position and force grasp controller and use a grasp quality metric to assess the grasps. 34 simulations with different pre-grasp poses were performed to investigate the relationship between the grasp quality and the risk measures as well as the sensitivity of the grasp quality to the pre-grasp position of the hand. Results show that the proposed risk metrics and the pre-grasp position correlate with the grasp quality, yet they are not sufficient to predict the outcome.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121436327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oliver Schürer, Benjamin Stangl, Christoph Müller, Christoph Hubatschke
{"title":"A first prototype of a space model of cultural meaning by natural-language human-robot interaction","authors":"Oliver Schürer, Benjamin Stangl, Christoph Müller, Christoph Hubatschke","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3076181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3076181","url":null,"abstract":"When using assistive systems, the consideration of individual and cultural meaning is crucial for the utility and acceptance of technology. Orientation, communication and interaction are rooted in perception and therefore always take place in material space. In our understanding, a major problem lies within the differences between the human and the technological perception of space. Cultural policies are based on meanings, their spatial situatedness and rich relationships amongst them. Therefore, we have developed an approach, where the different perception systems share a hybrid space model generated in a joint effort by humans and assistive systems by means of an artificial intelligence. The aim of our project is to generate a spatial model of cultural meaning, which is based on the interaction between human and robot. The role of the humanoid robots is defined as \"companion\". This should allow for technical systems to include so far ungraspable human and cultural agendas into their perception of space. In an experiment, we tested a first prototyp of the communication module, allowing a humanoid to learn cultural meanings by means of a machine learning system. Interaction is done by non-verbal and natural-language interaction between the humanoid and testpersons. It leads us to further understanding on the developement of a space model of cultural meaning.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132342959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonas Blattgerste, Benjamin Strenge, Patrick Renner, Thies Pfeiffer, K. Essig
{"title":"Comparing Conventional and Augmented Reality Instructions for Manual Assembly Tasks","authors":"Jonas Blattgerste, Benjamin Strenge, Patrick Renner, Thies Pfeiffer, K. Essig","doi":"10.1145/3056540.3056547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3056540.3056547","url":null,"abstract":"Augmented Reality (AR) gains increased attention as a means to provide assistance for different human activities. Hereby the suitability of AR does not only depend on the respective task, but also to a high degree on the respective device. In a standardized assembly task, we tested AR-based in-situ assistance against conventional pictorial instructions using a smartphone, Microsoft HoloLens and Epson Moverio BT-200 smart glasses as well as paper-based instructions. Participants solved the task fastest using the paper instructions, but made less errors with AR assistance on the Microsoft HoloLens smart glasses than with any other system. Methodically we propose operational definitions of time segments and other optimizations for standardized benchmarking of AR assembly instructions.","PeriodicalId":140232,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134435138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}