Design of an Urban Wheelchair

• Main Author: Escudero, Pablo
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik 2008
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-4345

In this report I will develop a wheelchair adapted to the urban reality of our society. It’ll have to compete with the electric wheelchairs on the market today. There is a real necessity on this as the wheelchairs on the streets today have developed little since they were firstly introduced in world war 2. To achieve a successful product we will study the different wheelchairs and how they adapt to the urban environment. Such study will include several surveys focusing on the user, it’s illnesses and anthropometrical measures as well as his way of usage. Then we will focus on the wheelchair, the types, characteristics, parts, and functions. The result will be an electric wheelchair which improves significatively in ergonomics, stability and maneuverability over their electric counterparts. Moreover it greatly increases it’s outdoor and indoor capability reducing the architectonical barriers that can be found on a city.