Mobility and freedom: Affective cane for expanded sensorium and embodied cognition

摘要

Nowadays, cognitive computing systems and embodied cognition associated with the availability of low cost sensors and their integration into common consumer products constitutes an opportunity to redefine the live of individuals in new ways, both in the depth and the richness of detail. The resulting flood of data will require the development of techniques of analysis and visualization at the same time as it opens new opportunities to improve the lives of individuals. In this work, we make demonstrable progress on both of these objectives, by developing cognitive computing related to ethnographic methodologies and strategies for practices with the objective of promoting health and wellbeing. We introduce an affective cane prototype, which has been designed to enable the active participation of people with disability or reduced mobility supporting their autonomy, independence, improved quality of life, and social integration.