ヤマザキ　アキコ   Akiko Yamazaki   山崎　晶子    所属   メディア学部 メディア学科    職種   教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2016/10
形態種別	学術論文
査読	査読あり
標題	Maintaining Formation of Multiple Robotic Wheelchairs for Smooth Communication.
執筆形態	共著
掲載誌名	International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools
掲載区分	国外
出版社・発行元	World Sceintific
巻・号・頁	25((05)),pp.1-19
著者・共著者	Suzuki, R., Kobayashi, Y., Kuno, Y., Yamada, T., Yamazaki, K., & Yamazaki, A.
概要	To meet the demands of an aging society, research on intelligent/robotic wheelchairs have been receiving a lot of attention. In elderly care facilities, care workers are required to communicate with the elderly in order to maintain both their mental and physical health. While this is regarded as important, having a conversation with someone on a wheelchair while pushing it from behind in a traditional setting would interfere with their smooth and natural conversation. So we are developing a robotic wheelchair system which allows companions and wheelchair users to move in a natural formation. This paper reports on an investigation to learn the patterns of human behavior when the wheelchair users and their companions communicate while walking together. The ethnographic observation reveals a natural formation of positioning for both companions and wheelchair users. Based on this investigation, we propose a multiple robotic wheelchair system which can maintain desirable formations for communication between wheelchairs.
外部リンクURL	http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0218213016400054