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Fabrication lends a hand: creating custom assistive technology

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XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, Volume 22, Issue 3

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2893497

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Lost your hand in a lightsaber fight? No problem, we can fix that. Rapid and consumer-grade fabrication tools could revolutionize the way we design and deliver assistive technologies.

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Fabrication lends a hand: creating custom assistive technology
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students Volume 22, Issue 3

Digital Fabrication

Spring 2016

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ISSN:1528-4972

EISSN:1528-4980

DOI:10.1145/2912126

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Stanford University

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Bleau MJaiswal AHolzhey PWittich W(2022)Applications of Additive Manufacturing, or 3D Printing, in the Rehabilitation of Individuals With Deafblindness: A Scoping StudySage Open10.1177/2158244022111780512:3Online publication date: 9-Aug-2022
https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221117805
Vandenberghe BGerling KGeurts LVanden Abeele V(2022)Maker Technology and the Promise of Empowerment in a Flemish School for Disabled ChildrenProceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3501853(1-18)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3501853

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