Fluid Independence: Powered Wheelchair Users' Perspectives on Autonomy, Care, and Assistive Technology
Md Tanzil Shahria, Nayan Banik, Md Samiul Haque Sunny, Mohammad H Rahman · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
This CHI 2026 paper reports a large qualitative study of 55 powered-wheelchair users (PWUs) across ten U.S. states, using 45-minute semi-structured interviews and Braun-and-Clarke thematic analysis to examine how independence is experienced, negotiated, and mediated by assistive…
powered wheelchair · assistive technology · participatory design · independence · caregiving