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Development and Thermographic Analysis of Custom Seats for Wheelchairs

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The design of Assistive Technology products has different technological routes such as massive products or custom products. These products aim at optimize the altered bodily functions. With that it can re-conduct these people to varied social activities. In this sense, the present article focuses on contribute in the construction of new technological routes for the manufacturing of wheelchair custom seats. The methodology includes the application of concepts such as tridimensional digitizing, CNC machining and thermography. Those techniques have the purpose of generating and analyzing seats made from user’s anthropometric data.

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  1. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 90035-190, Brazil

    Rafael Cavalli Prestes, Elisa Marangon Beretta, Fabio Pinto da Silva, Wilson Kindlein Jr. & Vilson João Batista

  2. PgDesign, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Rafael Cavalli Prestes, Elisa Marangon Beretta, Wilson Kindlein Jr. & Vilson João Batista

  3. Departamento de Design e Expressão Gráfica, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Fabio Pinto da Silva

  4. Departamento de Materiais, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Wilson Kindlein Jr. & Vilson João Batista

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  1. Rafael Cavalli Prestes
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  1. Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU, United Kingdom

    Philip Breedon

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Prestes, R.C., Beretta, E.M., da Silva, F.P., Kindlein, W., Batista, V.J. (2012). Development and Thermographic Analysis of Custom Seats for Wheelchairs. In: Breedon, P. (eds) Smart Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2975-2_11

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