title: The Impact of Individual Differences in Fine Motor Abilities on Wheelchair Control Behavior and Especially on Safety-Critical Collisions with Objects in the Surroundings
creator: Jipp, Meike
creator: Bartolein, Christian
creator: Wagner, Achim
creator: Badreddin, Essameddin
subject: 004
subject: 004 Data processing Computer science
description: In order to significantly reduce the number of safety-critical collisions of wheelchair users with objects spread in their environment, a study has been conducted which relates wheelchair user's fine motor abilities with the collisions while driving  through a standardized course in a  realistic office  environment. The conducted inferential statistics demonstrate that especially the participants' aiming  capacity can sign significantly predict the collisions occurring while driving through the course. A graphical and qualitative analysis of these effects demonstrates in addition that specific maneuvering tasks influence this relationship and that especially driving next to an  object without colliding requires a high level of aiming capacity. The results demonstrate the need to develop a wheelchair system which adapts its assistive functionality to the aiming capacity and the difficulty of the maneuvering task in order to provide as much help as necessary without risking the degradation of the wheelchair user's skills. 
date: 2009
type: Conference Item
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/10043/1/The_Impact_of_Individual_Differences_in_Fine_Motor_Abilities_on_Wheelchair_Control_Behavior_and_Especially_on_Safety_Critical_Collisions_with_Objects_in_the_Surroundings.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00010043
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-100431
identifier:   Jipp, Meike ; Bartolein, Christian ; Wagner, Achim ; Badreddin, Essameddin  (2009) The Impact of Individual Differences in Fine Motor Abilities on Wheelchair Control Behavior and Especially on Safety-Critical Collisions with Objects in the Surroundings.  [Conference Item]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/10043/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng