Manual wheelchair users sought to help design the next generation of assistive technology
Press release:
If you are a manual wheelchair user over the age of 18 who would like to contribute to improvements in assistive technology designed for YOUR use, while getting fed and paid, we have an opportunity for you!
Eligible participants will get dinner and receive $75 cash for about two hours in one evening in October to discuss a proposed wheelchair navigation route planning system; (no, it’s NOT just GPS).
This focus group will take place at Western New York Independent Living, Inc. (WNYIL), 3108 Main St. near Hertel Avenue, in Buffalo’s University District, under the auspices of the University at Buffalo’s Center on Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer (KT4TT).
To learn more or to participate in this group, please contact: Michelle Lockett at (716) 204-8606, ext. 203, or e-mail her at mlockett@buffalo.edu. Space is limited. Deadline for registration is Sept. 28.
WNY Independent Living, Inc., is Western New York's largest cross-disability, consumer-directed, non-residential organization for persons with disabilities. At WNYIL, individuals of all ages and all types of disabilities learn to exercise their freedom of choice to take control of their own lives in order to live more productively in, and contribute to, the community.
KT4TT is a partnership of the University at Buffalo's Center for Assistive Technology, and WNYIL agencies. This Buffalo-based five-year program is sponsored by a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
