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Cyborg Pride: Self-Design in e-NABLE

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The e-NABLE community is a global, distributed, loosely coordinated effort to design, produce, and deliver upper-limb assistive technology to those in need. e-NABLE's volunteers are often 3D-printing enthusiasts who are driven to use their skills to improve the lives of others. Volunteers provide the devices they produce to recipients around the world; these recipients are mainly children, but some are adults as well. While e-NABLE and its participants have received much attention from the media, little has been written about the experiences of the e-NABLE device users themselves. In this paper, we document the experiences of one user of an e-NABLE hand, detailing in a first-person account the journey from a recipient to an active participant and advocate for self-efficacy.

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ASSETS '17: Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
October 2017
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DOI:10.1145/3132525
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  1. 3d printing
  2. cyborg pride
  3. diy-at
  4. e-nable
  5. prostheses

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  • (2023)“I am both here and there” Parallel Control of Multiple Robotic Avatars by Disabled Workers in a CaféProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581124(1-17)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
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