Zuleima Morgado Ramirez, D;
Holloway, CSM;
(2017)
“But, I Don’t Want/Need a Power Wheelchair”: Toward Accessible Power Assistance for Manual Wheelchairs.
In:
ASSETS '17 - Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.
(pp. pp. 120-129).
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery): New York, NY, USA.
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Abstract
Power assist devices help manual wheelchair users to propel their wheelchair thus increasing their independence and reducing the risk of upper limb injuries due to excessive use. These benefits can be invaluable for people that already have upper limb joint pain and reduced muscular strength. However, it is not clear if the way that assistance is provided by such devices is what manual wheelchair users need and expect. 12 manual wheelchair users were interviewed to understand: the situations in which they find it difficult to propel their wheelchairs; situations they considered paramount to have power assistance; their experience or knowledge of power assist devices; and likes and dislikes of commercially available power assist devices. Finally, they were asked to comment on their ideal form factor of a power assist device. Users have suggested improvements of the devices' accessibility and visualized new ways in which they could interact with the technology. These interactions involve "chairable" devices independent from, but not excluding, wearable devices and mobile applications. We have identified the need of monitoring emotions and the need for designing an open source do-it-yourself wheelchair propelling assistance device which we believe is required equally in developed and in developing countries.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | “But, I Don’t Want/Need a Power Wheelchair”: Toward Accessible Power Assistance for Manual Wheelchairs |
| Event: | The 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility |
| Location: | Baltimore, Maryland. |
| Dates: | 30 October 2017 - 01 November 2017 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781450349260 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3132525.3132529 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1145/3132525.3132529 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright 2017 ACM. This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Manual Wheelchair; Power Assist Device; Participatory Design, Interviews, Assistive Technology, Human-Centered, Accessibility, Interaction Design |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1569387 |
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