Customizing directions in an automated wayfinding system for individuals with cognitive impairment

ASSETS'09 - Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 27-34

  Liu, Alan L ^a   Hile, Harlan ^a   Borriello, Gaetano ^a   Brown, Pat A ^b   Harniss, Mark ^b   Kautz, Henry ^c   Johnson, Kurt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairments; Markov decision process; User interface; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; DECISION-THEORETIC; DIRECTION SELECTION; MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; POTENTIAL USERS; PROTOTYPING; WAY-FINDING; WAY-FINDING SYSTEMS; WAYFINDING ASSISTANCE;

USER INTERFACES;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 72249118630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1639642.1639649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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