DocumentCode
146535
Title
Assistive aids for the disabled: Past, present and future
Author
Chitranshi, Gaurav ; Yadav, R.K.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Amity Univ., Noida, India
fYear
2014
fDate
25-26 Sept. 2014
Firstpage
962
Lastpage
966
Abstract
Assistive aids have been made in the recent years to help the disabled. These include persons with visual, hearing, speech, locomotor and mental disabilities. If the technology continues to grow over the next few years the poor disabled population will have access to low cost assistive aids and may become more employable. This paper discusses the assistive aids that has been developed in the past, recent years, compares them and predicts the future assistive aids that will drive the technology for the disabled.
Keywords
cognition; handicapped aids; hearing; speech; vision; assistive aids; disabled persons; hearing disabilities; locomotor disabilities; mental disabilities; speech disabilities; visual disabilities; Assistive devices; Auditory system; Gesture recognition; Hidden Markov models; Real-time systems; Speech; hearing disability; locomotor disability; mental disability; speech disability; visual disability;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Confluence The Next Generation Information Technology Summit (Confluence), 2014 5th International Conference -
Conference_Location
Noida
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-4237-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CONFLUENCE.2014.6949317
Filename
6949317
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