INVESTIGATION OF ELECTRIC WHEELCHAIR USERS' BEHAVIOR : Study on living environment for electric wheelchair users
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Wheelchair users are not necessarily wheelchair bound.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1340-4210,1881-8161
DOI: 10.3130/aija.69.55_4