How many people would benefit from a smart wheelchair?

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-72

  Simpson, Richard C ^a,b   LoPresti, Edmund F ^c   Cooper, Rory A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c AT Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Cognitive impairment; Human machine systems; Physical impairment; Rehabilitation; Robotics; Smart wheelchairs; Veterans; Visual impairment; Wheelchairs; Wheeled mobility

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT; REHABILITATION; SMART WHEELCHAIRS; VETERANS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WHEELED MOBILITY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; ROBOTICS;

WHEELCHAIRS;

AGITATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BLINDNESS; BRADYKINESIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DYSTONIA; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FATIGUE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT MOBILITY; PHYSICAL DISEASE; POWERED WHEELCHAIR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREMOR; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WEAKNESS; WHEELCHAIR; BIOENGINEERING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DISABLED PERSON; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPERT SYSTEM; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; POWER SUPPLY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS;

DISABLED PERSONS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 56249121032     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 07487711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2007.01.0015     Document Type: Article

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