Beyond the Manual: Mapping Peer-Generated Content about Wheelchair Care and Adaptation on YouTube
Wen Mo, Aneesha Singh, Lan Xiao, Catherine Holloway · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
This CHI 2026 paper presents a content analysis of 290 YouTube videos (from 194 unique channels, 8,629 initial results narrowed via inclusion/exclusion) and 800 sampled comments from a total 10,781 harvested, examining how wheelchair users and their caregivers document, share,…
wheelchair · DIY assistive technology · YouTube · content analysis · peer support