Development of meal support system with voice input interface for upper limb disabilities

Author

Suzuki, Ryo ; Ogino, Koji ; Nobuaki, Kobayashi ; Kogure, Kiyoshi ; Tanaka, Kiyoshi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Robot., Kanazawa Inst. of Technol., Ishikawa, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

19-21 June 2013

Firstpage

714

Lastpage

718

Abstract

Meal support system for people with upper limb disabilities have been proposed on a commercial basis, but their systems are required more improving for usability, costly, and mobility. The purpose of this research is to propose robotic meal support systems with a voice input interface for people with upper limb disabilities. The proposed system has also several functions such as a tongue movement detection and an obstacle detection. A prototype is developed for experimental validation and performance evaluations of the proposed system.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; medical computing; medical disorders; medical robotics; speech recognition; speech-based user interfaces; voice equipment; obstacle detection; performance evaluations; proposed system; robotic meal support systems; tongue movement detection; upper limb disabilities; voice input interface; Assistive devices; Conferences; Estimation; Face; Force; Robots; Tongue;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2013 8th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6320-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIEA.2013.6566460

Filename

6566460