While working with several people who
were confined to wheelchairs, we
found that placing them within a
comfortable viewing distance from a
monitor was very difficult. Alternatives
to this were projection and head-
mounted displays. Both of these
options, however, were too expensive
to solve our problem. For this reason,
we designed a monitor arm which
would allow us to place a monitor
wherever we wanted it. Using gas
shocks from the automobile industry,
we were able to counteract the weight
of the monitor. This allowed the arm
to be easily adjusted by almost anyone.
There are currently two versions of the monitor arm, the manual version pictured
above, and a motorized version. The latter can be controlled by neattools, thus
allowing a person in a wheelchair to have complete control over the arm by means
of almost any interface, such as a keyboard, mouse, joystick, or any widgit.
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