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Assistive devices: stroke patients' design

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Ana Correia de Barros,

Carlos DuarteAuthors Info & Claims

C&C '09: Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition

Pages 79 - 86

https://doi.org/10.1145/1640233.1640248

Published: 26 October 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The following paper describes a number of solutions for activities of daily living created by stroke patients in order to achieve independence in certain tasks. We interviewed 48 stroke patients in clinics and their private homes and found that many of them come up with their own personal assistive devices made at home or adapt existing objects to serve yet another function. We believe that by researching into these persons' habits designers not only gain new insights about what it is to actually live with disabilities but also new ideas for new products and approaches to designing better assistive devices.

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Assistive devices: stroke patients' design
1. General and reference
  1. Document types
    1. Surveys and overviews
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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DOI:10.1145/1640233

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Zachos KMaiden NLevis SMaver TDo E(2015)Creativity Support to Improve Health-and-Safety in Manu-facturing PlantsProceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition10.1145/2757226.2757245(225-234)Online publication date: 22-Jun-2015
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