Chairstairs: An Assistive Technology Device For Independent Wheelchair-To-Ground Transfers
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Transferring between surfaces is an important part of wheelchair users’ lives and are performed an average of 11 to 20 times each day (Koontz, Bass, & Cooper, 2015). When people think of wheelchair transfers, often what comes to mind are transfers to or from another surface that is similar in height, such as wheelchair-to-bed or wheelchair-to-car transfers. Transfers that are considered less often by both researchers and builders of assistive technology (AT) are those between wheelchair and ground.
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