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- research-articleOctober 2017
"But, I Don't Want/Need a Power Wheelchair": Toward Accessible Power Assistance for Manual Wheelchairs
ASSETS '17: Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and AccessibilityPages 120–129https://doi.org/10.1145/3132525.3132529Power 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 ...
- research-articleMarch 2008
Classifying wheelchair propulsion patterns with a wrist mounted accelerometer
BodyNets '08: Proceedings of the ICST 3rd international conference on Body area networksArticle No.: 20, Pages 1–4In this paper, we describe a manual wheelchair propulsion classification system which recognizes different patterns using a wrist mounted accelerometer. Four distinct propulsion patterns have been identified in a limited user study. This study is the ...