AI6YR BenHmm, I am curious how many wheelchair users are asking for AI- and drone-enabled wheelchairs.
IEEE: AI Aims for Autonomous Wheelchair Navigation
New chairs track obstacles while drones map the room
Taran Rampersad@ai6yr it's a fair question.
Most people who are wheel enhanced i know love their autonomy and agency, but I do not know how many would welcome this.
Maybe this post will find people want it.
I did a wheelchair experiment in a hospital once. Naval Hospital Orlando, my last day as staff there, I did in a wheelchair in uniform.
It's amazing how different the world is from that perspective. And that was one day. Not a life.
I should write about that sometime. You jogged that memory.
@ai6yr I wrote it up.
It's long, but I think the back story is important.
I learned a fraction of a fraction of what it was like.
And it felt good to write. Lived experience feels that way expressed. I didn't do enough of that this week.
@ai6yr Well... one critic that was upset.
They've blocked me after some insults, which is fine.
I want to clarify my intent, though.
I wrote about trust. I wrote about who is seen. I did it from the only perspective I have: mine.
It's honest.
So if others have things to say, fire away.
But my intent was simply to write what I know.
@knowprose Huh, explain what "Semper Gumby" is. I had seen someone else post that and had no idea it was actually a military thing.
@ai6yr It's a play on Semper Fidelis. 'Always faithful'.
When I was in, 'Gumby' was that flexible children's character.
So particularly Corpsmen who worked with Marines would say in my era, "Semper Gumby': Always flexible.
It fits a lot of things, so it went beyond that boundary. Something needs to get done, it gets done however you can.
Had a Corpsman I worked with that was called 'Doc Duct Tape'. Semper Gumby. :)
@ai6yr I actually had a Gumby pin I sometimes wore in the field on my back so people could tell who 'Doc' was.
LOL.