An augmented reality platform for wearable assisted living systems
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Assisted Living systems aim to improve life quality of their users giving context relevant guid- ance accordingly with their location and hour of the day. Most of commercial systems depend on complex/expensive infrastructure and still their positional information is not sufficient to take advantage of modern interfacing devices such as head-up displays or pico-projectors. We describe in this paper the design of an Assisted Living system capable to offer such guidance with on-site Augmented Reality, without introducing changes in the environment and using off-the-shelf equip- ment. The system can take advantage of wearable computing devices with embedded camera by determining the user position and orientation by using Visual Odometry and SLAM techniques. With this data, advices can be exhibited automatically by merging it seamlessly to the environment using augmented reality. In order to assess the efficacy of our system, we performed pilot tests in health care centres and residences using a prototype of a low-cost wearable device which displays the information through an embedded pico-projector.
Source: Applied Computer Science
Institution: ITCL Technology Centre
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $109
OpenAlex ID: W2227859446