An independent shopping experience for wheelchair users through augmented reality and RFID

Abstract

People with physical and mobility impairments continue to struggle to attain independence in the performance of routine activities and tasks. For example, browsing in a store and interacting with products located beyond an arm's length may be impossible without the enabling intervention of a human assistant. This research article describes a study undertaken to design, develop, and evaluate potential interaction methods for motor-impaired individuals, specifically those who use wheelchairs. Our study includes a user-centered approach, and a categorization of wheelchair users based upon the severity of their disability and their individual needs. We designed and developed access solutions that utilize radio frequency identification (RFID), augmented reality (AR), and touchscreen technologies in order to help people who use wheelchairs to carry out certain tasks autonomously. In this way, they have been empowered to go shopping independently, free from reliance upon the assistance of others. A total of 18 wheelchair users participated in the completed study.

The Existing of Supportive Technology Tools for Hand Motor-impaired User: A systematic Literature Review

“…This exercise game concept gives the idea or inspiration for future investigation to make this innovation and initiative for the disabled person, especially those who encounter low functionality of hand motor-impaired. Another study has developed and designed an augmented reality for a motor-impaired user to evaluate their potential interaction [15]. This technology helps them to be more independent and motivate them as we know their struggle to obtain ability the performance of daily activities.…”

“…From the reviews, most studies had been conducted in Europe which is 15 studies [3][4][5][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] followed by USA which is nine studies [2], [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27], Korea [28,29], and South East Asia [30][31][32][33] had been handled 3 studies respectively, while China has 2 studies [34,35] and Turkey [36] and Brazil [37] and Japan [38] had one paper respectively. The papers had been published in the early 2000s until the present.…”

“…The previous study and investigation have shown that healthy and technology have close associated which means it important to help the user to improve or assist their daily routine. Another study that evaluates the augmented reality games as a supportive technology application that has been used for hand motor-impaired user [3], [15], [19], [28]. Besides that, there is a study that used another device which is exoskeleton technology for hand motor impaired users' [10], [4], [25], [27].…”

“…According to the quality of methodologies of this review, the majorities of the studies focused on hands motor-impaired users' and the supportive technology that has been used in the studies respectively. [3,[8][9][10], [4], [15], [17], [18], [24][25][26]28], [34], [35], [37]. The Table I display all the findings from the selected review paper.…”

“…Besides that, it provided the patients do not get dizzy while wearing it. Paper 10 [15] Evaluate potential interaction methods for motor-impaired individuals, specifically those who use wheelchairs.…”