A virtual reality approach for usability assessment: Case study on a wheelchair-mounted robot manipulator

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 359-373

  Di Gironimo, G ^a   Matrone, G ^a   Tarallo, A ^a   Trotta, M ^a   Lanzotti, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Assistive robotics; Participatory design; Usability index; Virtual reality experiments

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; CONTROL AND NOISE FACTORS; INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; USABILITY INDEX;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; EXPERIMENTS; FLEXIBLE MANIPULATORS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MODULAR ROBOTS; PRODUCT DESIGN; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY; WHEELCHAIRS;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 84879301740     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: 14355663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00366-012-0274-x     Document Type: Article

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