Lacey, Gerard and MacNamara, Shane (2000) User involvement in the design and evaluation of a smart mobility aid. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 37 (6). pp. 709-723. ISSN 0748-7711

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This paper describes the design and evaluation of an innovative smart mobility aid for the frail visually impaired. The Personal Adaptive Mobility AID (PAM-AID) was developed to address the difficulties in personal mobility of the frail and elderly visually impaired. The paper provides an overview of the PAM-AID research at Trinity College and describes the evolutionary nature of the design process. Because there were no existing systems to guide its development, a series of proto-types was constructed and they were regularly evaluated in the field. This approach views potential users as vital contributing members of the design team and led to rapid and hopefully useful improvements in the design.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	elderly; mobility aid; robot inability aids; visual impairment;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
Item ID:	16907
Depositing User:	Gerard Lacey
Date Deposited:	31 Jan 2023 14:57
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
Publisher:	Rehabilitation Research and Development Service of the Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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