To what extent are employers willing to invite applicants in wheelchairs job interviews when the applicant is comparable not and can be conducted by a person wheelchair? We have first Danish field experiment with 1,200 fictive applications for real adverts four different functions measure independent effect of being wheelchair user. find significant difference callback rates. Wheelchair users n...

Although roughly 0.6% of the US population is wheelchair-bound, the strain of travel is such that, according to some estimations, more than twice that amount relies on wheelchairs in airports [5]. Even those who have their own chairs still rely on airlines for assistance when making connections. For airlines to provide this service effectively, they must find a way to skirt the boundary between...

A new infinitely variable automatic transmission called the RESATRAN that automatically changes its speed ratio in response to load torque being transmitted is presented. A prototype has been built and tested on a conventional three-wheeled electric motor propelled wheelchair. It is shown theoretically that more than 50 percent reduction in power during hill climbing may be expected when a tran...

The various stages of development of a lever drive system are described. The use of both roller and friction clutches are discussed and the means for controlling forward, reverse, and braking are included. The current system allows good maneuverability without requiring hand skills and may be effective for quadriplegics.

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to infer dialogue acts using the notion of tacit contracts. We describe the interpersonal linguistic features that our analysis grammar can identify in uttered texts and present an inference procedure that strictly separates the semantic and pragmatic steps of utterance understanding, thereby meeting a higher degree of modularity, a prerequisite for ex...

This article presents a summary of current state of smart wheelchairs. An assistive technology known as wheelchair is used to deal with loss of mobility for the patients who are not able to walk normally due to some injury or some other age related walking disabilities (permanent or under treatment). There is a vast development in the field of wheelchairs. Researchers are going on to develop re...