Paper:
Self-Assisted Care System for Human Mobility
Teruhisa Onishi*, Tatsuo Arai**, Kenji Inoue**,
and Yasushi Mae**
*Tsuyama National College of Technology, 624-1 Numa, Tsuyama, Okayama 708-8509, Japan
**Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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