Towards Accessible Mobility Support: User-Centered Design of a Passive, Multi-Functional, Low-Cost Knee Exoskeleton
Yuyu Lin, Yujia Liu, Emma Kim, Alexandra Ion · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
Lin et al. (Carnegie Mellon) propose a fully passive, unpowered knee exoskeleton that aims to sit in the gap between two unsatisfying options currently available to people with mobility impairments: static knee-ankle-foot orthoses (KAFOs), which are cheap and light but lock the…
exoskeleton · orthosis · knee brace · mobility · rehabilitation