Two sides of the same coin: accessibility practices and neurodivergent users' experience of extended reality

Autor: Tamari Lukava, Dafne Zuleima Morgado Ramirez, Giulia Barbareschi

Publikováno v: Journal of Enabling Technologies. 16:75-90

PurposeThis paper explores the accessibility barriers faced by neurodivergent individuals regarding the use of Extended Reality (XR) technologies and the difficulties faced by developers in creating neurodivergent inclusive XR experiences.Design/meth

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https://doi.org/10.1108/jet-03-2022-0025

Neuroergonomic Assessment of Wheelchair Control Using Mobile fNIRS

Autor: Helen Dawes, Shawn Joshi, Daniella Nicole Springett, Hasan Ayaz, Catherine Holloway, Dafne Zuleima Morgado Ramirez, Benjamin David Weedon, Roxana Ramirez Herrera

Publikováno v: Joshi, S, Herrera, R R, Springett, D N, Weedon, B D, Ramirez, D Z M, Holloway, C, Dawes, H & Ayaz, H 2020, ' Neuroergonomic Assessment of Wheelchair Control Using Mobile fNIRS ', IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, vol. 28, no. 6, 9086088, pp. 1488-1496 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2020.2992382
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng

For over two centuries, the wheelchair has been one of the most common assistive devices for individuals with locomotor impairments without many modifications. Wheelchair control is a complex motor task that increases both the physical and cognitive

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https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsre.2020.2992382

Disability Design and Innovation in Low Resource Settings: Addressing Inequality Through HCI

Autor: Edward Cutrell, Aditya Vashistha, Giulia Barbareschi, Catherine Holloway, Dafne Zuleima Morgado-Ramirez, Swami Manohar Swaminathan

Publikováno v: CHI Extended Abstracts

Approximately 15% of the world's population has a disability and 80% live in low resource-settings, often in situations of severe social isolation. Technology is often inaccessible or inappropriately designed, hence unable to fully respond to the nee

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3441340

Breathing Biofeedback Relaxation Intervention for Wheelchair Users in City Navigation

Autor: Catherine Holloway, Bingqing Zhang, Youngjun Cho, Roxana Ramirez Herrera, Dafne Zuleima Morgado Ramirez

Publikováno v: EMBC

Manual wheelchair users experience numerous invisible barriers while navigating cities, often reporting how stressful journeys are. This stress affects a wheelchair user’s quality of life. To alleviate such psychological burden, we propose a novel

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33019012

Vibration transmission of the spine during walking is different between the lumbar and thoracic regions in older adults

Autor: Raymond Y.W. Lee, Siobhan Strike, Dafne Zuleima Morgado Ramirez

Publikováno v: Ramirez, D Z M, Strike, S & Lee, R 2017, ' Vibration transmission of the spine during walking is different between the lumbar and thoracic regions in older adults ', Age and Ageing, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 982-987 . https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afx041

Background: fractures occur more commonly in the thoracic than in the lumbar spine. Physical activity complemented with pharmacological interventions has been advocated as a preventive measure for osteoporosis. However, walking has been shown to prod

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https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afx041