Using 20th century technology to improve the user experience and expand the capabilities by allowing smart phone apps to communicate and work with the wheelchair. This creates a limitless environment for users to create new apps or have existing apps control or provide input to make the wheelchair experience better. An example is using WAZE (or waze-like app) to tell the user and the chair about accessible doorways, ramps, buildings or hazards.
The user experience as a wheelchair user has not improved in years. While motorized wheelchairs have made it easy to get around, the user is still rather limited in what the overall experience of getting from point A to point B has remained the same.
The need knowers are people who use wheelchairs.
The build files for Wheelchair UX Revamp are free to download from this page - open source, shared by TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers.
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