Purpose: Improving access to education and training for those providing wheelchair and
seating assistive technology to meet personal posture and mobility requirements, as a basic …

The technological evolution of the 3-D printer, widespread internet access and inexpensive
computing has made a new means of open design capable of accelerating self-directed …

Goals of the Paralympics include social equality and promoting inclusion and the attainment
of full potential using sport as a vehicle. 1 Wheelchair racing has been a component of …

Background For people who have a mobility impairment, access to an appropriate
wheelchair is an important step towards social inclusion and participation. The World Health …

“Development engineering” is a new interdisciplinary field that we define as creating
solutions that improve human development in low-resource settings at a scale for large …

While there is increasing interest in designing for the developing world, identifying
appropriate design research methods for understanding user needs and preferences in …

This paper examines the “reverse innovation” of the leveraged freedom chair (LFC), a high-
performance, low-cost, off-road wheelchair originally designed for developing countries. A …

Demands by industry, and by society as a whole, for the knowledge, skills, and abilities of
engineers continue to expand and deepen1. Educating engineers who can best address …

This paper presents a case study in engineering for global development. It introduces the
Village Drill, which is an engineered product that has—5 years after its introduction to the …

Living in informality is challenging. It is even harder when you have a mobility impairment.
Traditional assistive products such as wheelchairs are essential to enable people to travel …