APPENDIX C:
USER OBSERVATION SUMMARY
Alp Alptekin and Ben Levinson observed our user at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) on
Wednesday, January 14, 2016. The purpose of the session was to understand the range of motion the user
possessed as well as suggestions the user or her mother, Mary, has. The session lasted 50 minutes. This
appendix explains the methodology used to conduct the observation and summarizes the results of the
observation.
METHODOLOGY:
The observation took place in an RIC meeting room. The user was interviewed to get basic demographic
information and then asked to transfer from the bed to the wheelchair. After that, she was asked to do
certain movements as we took note of the range of motion of the user as well as how easily the actions
tested were for her. Then we asked the parent of the user for suggestions for a design and if she had any
preferences that we would need to know of as we design the contraption. Finally, we took measurements of
it the wheelchair the user was in as well the measurements of her certain body parts.
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