The gest-rest: A pressure-sensitive chairable input pad for power wheelchair armrests

ASSETS14 - Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 201-208

  Carrington, Patrick ^a   Hurst, Amy ^a   Kane, Shaun K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Chairable; Gesture; Input; Mobile computing; Power wheelchair; Pressure input; Touch

Indexed keywords

KNOBS; MOBILE COMPUTING; TOUCH SCREENS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

ACCESSIBILITY; CHAIRABLE; GESTURE; INPUT; POWER WHEELCHAIR; TOUCH;

WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 84911374374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2661334.2661374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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