Personal adaptive mobility aid for the infirm and elderly blind

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1458, Issue , 1998, Pages 211-220

  Lacey, Gerard ^a   Namara, Shane Mac ^a   Dawson Howe, Kenneth M ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

CURRENT STATUS; MOBILITY AIDS;

WALKING AIDS;

EID: 78650223883     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0055980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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