An important goal of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) research is to contribute to the quality of life of the elderly and handicapped people and help them to maintain an independent lifestyle with the use of sensors, signal processing and the available telecommunications infrastructure. From this perspective, detection of unusual human activities such as falling person detection is of utmost impor...

Today’s world contain of a large variation of people. Mostly disability person is depends upon other for their living. But in the today’s fast developing world, people is busy in work so that they don’t have enough time for physically challenged people.The main aim this system physically challenged people can move inside the home without any trouble. In this system voice recognition system used...

The purpose of this research is to develop an interactive device for environment recognition, which uses senses other than vision. At present there is no interactive device with which a person who is visually handicapped can gain an intuitive impression of the external world. Our device, which we have named CyARM, has a mechanism that controls the motion of a visually impaired person's arm acco...

Persons with disabilities have major reasons for use of adaptive systems. These individuals are often handicapped by not having access to traditional forms of communication and information. An individual who is blind cannot read print information. A person who is deaf cannot usually obtain information directly via telephone. An individual with a speech impairment may have the same problem with ...

SUMMARY 330 mentally retarded and physically handicapped persons were studied in four different socioeconomic regions of Tehran. One faecal sample from each person was examined by the direct smear, formalin­ether method and Graham test for detection oxyuris. Overall prevalence of intestinal parasites in both groups was 59 .4 % . The commonest protozoan and helminth were Entamoeba coli and Enta...

BACKGROUND Disability is more based on social, rather than medical aspects. Lack of attention and social support may impact on participation of people with physical disability in various aspects and their return to normal life in the society. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to determine perceived social support and related factors among physically disabled in the city of Tehran. PATIENT...

BACKGROUND Despite increasing use of assistive devices (ADs) by physically disabled (PD) children, the use rate, number, effects and related services have seldom been studied. Understanding AD utilization is helpful in improving the related services. This study describes the usage of ADs by children with physical disabilities (PDs). METHODS This regional survey enrolled children with PDs. The...

OBJECTIVE This project was aimed at designing and putting an electronic prototype into practice for improving the initial time taken by visually handicapped people for learning Braille, especially children. METHODS This project was mainly based on a prototype digital electronic device which identifies and translates material written by a user in Braille by a voice synthesis system, producing ...

Originally the charge, under the SRS, was for us simply to improve on the mobility system for severely handicapped people . We interpreted this to include short-range travel, long-range travel, inside and outside; as well as horizontally and vertically . In short, any transport system which would help in daily activities, job execution, or recreation was to be considered . A few hundred man-hou...