Title
Kinetic evaluation of a tactile interface for steering a power wheelchair - a pilot study.
Abstract
Power wheelchairs are, for many people, the only way to regain an autonomy of mobility. Unfortunately, some categories of people with disabilities do not have access to one because of the incompatibility of the classical steering device (joystick) with their disability. In a previous publication, we introduced a new tactile interface for steering a wheelchair. In this paper, we present a pilot kinematic evaluation of this interface. We analyzed the performance of able bodied users with the joystick and with the touch interface according to different stability criteria of the piloting in three different situations: straight line following, 90° corner and doorway passing. The overall performance of the tactile interface was close to the joysticku0027s and opens up to some improvement strategies before a clinical study with targeted users.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3132129.3132160
IHM
Field
DocType
Citations 
Wheelchair,Power wheelchairs,Line (geometry),Kinematics,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Clinical study,Joystick
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Youssef Guedira110.72
E. Desailly200.34
René Farcy300.34
Yacine Bellik413220.30