Leveraging Shared Control to Empower People with Tetraplegia to Participate in Extreme Sports
Ahmad Alsaleem, Ross Imburgia, Mateo Godinez, Andrew Merryweather, Roger Altizer, Tamara Denning, Jeffery Rosenbluth, Stephen Trapp, Jason Wiese · 2019 · Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)
This paper describes the iterative design and field evaluation of Tetra-Ski, a power-assisted adaptive ski chair that enables people with tetraplegia to participate in alpine skiing — a high-risk, high-independence activity previously inaccessible to this population. Existing…
tetraplegia · spinal cord injury · adaptive sports · shared control · sip-and-puff