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ABSTRACTAssistive Technologies are specialized products aiming to partly compensate for the loss of autonomy experienced by disabled people. Because they address special needs in a highly-segmented market, they are often considered as niche products. To improve their design and make them tend to Universality, we propose the EMFASIS framework (Extended Modularity, Functional Accessibility, and Social Integration Strategy). We first elaborate on how this strategy conciliates niche and Universalist views, which may appear conflicting at first sight. We then present three examples illustrating its application for designing Assistive Technologies: the design of an overbed table, an upper-limb powered orthose and a powered wheelchair. We conclude on the expected outcomes of our strategy for the social integration and participation of disabled people.
is an open access repository that collects the work of Arts et Métiers ParisTech researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible.
ABSTRACTRewarded at Laval Virtual 2014, the AccesSim project aims to develop a wheelchair simulator based on Virtual Reality (VR) and a dynamic force--feedback platform, which allows to experience and to evaluate the accessibility in complex urban or property environment. In order to address this issue, the dynamic force--feedback platform should provide haptic and vestibular feedback to various user profiles: from town--planners to wheelchair users. The platform needs to be modular and adjustable to each of these profiles. This article focuses on the dynamic force--feedback platform and specifically on the force--feedback systems used.
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