Design and Analysis of Wheelchair by Ethnographic and Ergonomics Considerations

Abstract

Relatively there are considerable numbers of people who are unable to walk freely due to oneor the other problems in their legs. There are numerous types of wheelchairs available in the market; however there are various difficulties for the patients in using the manual wheelchair. Hence, there is a scope to understand the patients’ requirements and design the wheelchair as per the patients’ needs by the ethnographic and ergonomics research. Option would be to improve the function of wheelchairs with the help of ethnographic research by the inputs given by various patients, users, attendants and doctors in problems identifications and solving problems of wheelchairs. The main objective is to design the wheel chair based on ergonomic consideration which gives comfort to the user and to carry out the analysis for the wheel chair for different materials and obtain the efficient material with minimum weight.

Cite this Article

Chandrakant Kulkarni, Abhijit

Dandavate, Maheshwar MC. Design

and Analysis of Wheelchair by

Ethnographic and Ergonomics

Considerations. Trends in Mechanical

Engineering & Technology. 2017; 7(1):

33–39p.