Making Emergency Calls More Accessible to Older Adults Through a Hands-free Speech Interface in the House
Michel Vacher, Frédéric Aman, Solange Rossato, François Portet, Benjamin Lecouteux · 2019 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)
This paper presents CirdoX, a hands-free voice user interface system designed to detect emergency calls for help from older adults living alone at home. Wearable personal emergency response (PER) systems — typically pendant buttons worn on the neck or wrist — are the mainstream…
speech recognition · aging · emergency response · ambient assisted living · smart home