Once More, with Feeling

Abstract

At this point, we knew the protocols by heart, so we followed every step once more, only this time it was decided to work in a house-like environment [173][177]. This would provide a more realistic place to run our tests and, also, we could work with persons with higher disability indexes and not interfere with hospital activity. FSL kindly provided access to Casa Agevole (Fig. 6.1), a 60 m ² house built within the hospital complex in Rome ( http://www.progettarepertutti.org ).Casa Agevole has the minimum requirements to be standard-compliant, specifically meaning, in our case, that doors width and room sizes are very reduced, yet appropriate for wheelchair navigation and should fit our needs. Or, in other words, if our wheelchair can not navigate within this house, it could be of no use to operate in a common one.