A new design approach of user-centered design on a personal assistive bathing device for hemiplegia

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1077-1089

  Ma, Min Yuan ^a   Wu, Fong Gong ^a   Chang, Ro Han ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assistive Device; Design process; Stroke patients; User Centred Design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; AXILLA; BACK; BATH; CONCEPT FORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOT; FUNCTION TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HAND GRIP; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; LEG; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF HELP; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; BATHS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; SELF-HELP DEVICES;

EID: 34447559774     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280600949712     Document Type: Article

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