Smartphone accessibility: understanding the lived experience of users with cervical spinal cord injuries.

Purpose: To explore accessibility challenges encountered by smartphone users with cervical spinal cord injuries (C1-C8). To investigate the suitability of current technology and make recommendations to help future technology meet user needs.

Methods: The study uses a mixed-method approach combining an inductive thematic analysis of nine semi-structured interviews with a quantitative analysis of thirty-nine questionnaires.

Real-Time Free Space Semantic Segmentation for Detection of Traversable Space for an Intelligent Wheelchair.

The last decades saw a great innovation in computer vision. Recently, the field has been fundamental in the development of autonomous navigation systems. Modern assistive technologies, like smart wheelchairs, could employ autonomous navigation to assist users during operation.