Our paper investigates the values fostered and inhibited by current Brain-computer Interface systems for the physically disabled. We report on a study conducted among 12 physically disabled individuals by employing Value Sensitive Design, a tripartite methodology accounting for human values in the design process. Our study reveals that current systems restrict independence, articulation, recrea...

Objective: Purpose of this study was to determining the share of self-efficacy, achievement motivation and self-esteem in predicting entrepreneurial behavior in physically disabled females. Method: The design of the present study was a predictive correlation. The sample consisted of 80 female members of Disabled Community in Isfahan City who had 18-36 years old and participated in questionnaire...

This study was done to demonstrate whether or not occupational therapy intervention increases bathing independence for disabled persons. The bathing section of the Klein-Bell Activities of Daily Living Scale was administered to 19 physically disabled subjects before and after bathing training was completed by occupational therapists. All 19 subjects showed improvement in their ability to bathe ...

Wheel chairs are the way of reincarnating life in the lives of physically disabled people.A dependent user recognition voice system and ultrasonic sensor systems has been integrated in this wheelchair. In this way we have obtained a automatic wheelchair which can be driven using voice commands and with the possibility of avoiding obstacles by using ultrasonic sensors . The wheelchair has also b...

The current research investigates acknowledgments that physically disabled individuals make in an interview setting, and examines whether the timing of an acknowledgment makes a difference to the impressions that evaluators form A total of 137 participants watched an interview of a disabled applicant who (a) made no acknowledgment about the disability; or who acknowledged the disability at the ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of obesity, and the risk factors associated with it, in physically disabled adults living in the city centre of Malatya, Turkey. METHOD This research was designed as a cross-sectional study conducted on physically disabled people aged 20-65 years living in the city centre of Malatya. The prevalence of obesity in disabled pe...