Wheelchair development, standards, progress, and issues: a discussion with Colin McLaurin, Sc.D.

This discussion is presented by the Editors of the Journal in an effort to provide significant information about improvements in wheelchair design and evaluation of wheelchair standards, since this type of research is rarely reported in the current scientific/engineering literature. Dr. McLaurin is the Director of the Rehabilitation Engineering Center at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia and is Chairman of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the American National Standards institute (ANSI), a private group representing the US. at the International Organization for Standards (ISO), which is responsible for developing wheelchair standards . Portions of this interview appeared in the July 1985 issue of the Journal.