Development of Assistive Software for the Disabled and the Elderly Based on User Characteristics - Unified User Interface for Special Work Chair

사용자 특성을 고려한 장애인 및 노령 인구를 위한 보조 소프트웨어의 개발 - 작업용 특수 전동의자를 위한 통합 사용자 인터페이스

Social participation of the elderly and the disabled continuously becomes more active due to the improvement of social systems and technological development. Various systems such as intelligence robots and intelligence home systems have been developed to support their social participation, and those systems obviously contribute to the independent lives of the elderly and the disabled. Those systems, however, usually require special hardware, which make them very expensive. Considering the economic difficulties of the users, the problem should be tackled with software-oriented approaches using existing hardware such as laptops. The software should be adapted to users with limited capabilities by enabling them to utilize the system without much knowledge related to computers and also without keyboards and mice. This paper suggests software-oriented approaches to solve those problems with the description of the unified user interface for a special work chair, and introduces an actual development procedure of the program together with real application of related theories.