Developing Verifying Autonomy Required for IOT assisted Inclusion for Intellectually Challenged Users
Abstract
Recent technology advances in robotics and ambient assisted living technologies can impact on social inclusion of people with disabilities and the elderly people. These technologies, by offering additional assistance, complete the autonomy loop and contribute to the individual independence, enabling users to be an integral part of their societies and its workforce. Use of user models and behavior models allow for anticipation and identification of risks and its alleviation, for example it can contribute to reducing risk to the individuals by keeping them safe, and also to the society by circumventing harm that may arise from user’s unexpected behavior that could be caused from physical or intellectual disability. Consider a user with tremor in their hand and their ability to drive a powered wheelchair. Use of user specific modelling can be beneficial in identifying tremor and cancelling it as as input noise. Also in such scenarios, multimodal and IoT enabled systems allow for access to additional channels to ascertain input, offering high adaptability and more reliable systems, which can not only assist the interaction, but also learn from the repeated interactions. The proposed project aims at developing technologies for utilizing the state of the art in ambient assisted living, in order to provide a reliable and resilient platform in Kaga City, a provincial town in Japan, to incorporate artificial intelligence, robotic and VR assisted solutions that help users to interact with their environment more naturally, and also to fit into vocational roles previously not possible, to assist each other, using this platform.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 14, 2022
- Source ID
- FA23861914015XX0
Entities
People
- Ryo Maezono
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- United States Air Force