Robot-assisted shopping for the blind: Issues in spatial cognition and product selection

Intelligent Service Robotics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 237-251

  Gharpure, Chaitanya P ^a   Kulyukin, Vladimir A ^a  

^a Utah State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive robotics; Blind navigation; Haptic and locomotor interfaces; Human robot interaction; Independent shopping for the visually impaired; Service robotics; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 46449132329     PISSN: 18612776     EISSN: 18612784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11370-008-0020-9     Document Type: Article

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