Table 3.

Themes and Data from 1 Wheelchair User Focus Group

Theme: Safety “Improved Safety” “Reduce injury “hurting themselves or running into something or anybody else” “people have neck and back pain … how quick and the forces with the stopping.” “they are gonna need some sort of restraint to keep them from coming out of the chair” “a resident who is in her room and uses her scooter, I feel like that’s when she’s the most unsafe is within her room.” “would alert caregiver”	Theme: Use of the device “recognize when it changes surfaces, like if it’s going to go up and down a slope” “limit people from increasing speed” “it disengages the engine and just stops it” “knowing when there’s an obstacle” “hit or brake really hard, like a seat that absorbed it”	Theme: User Privacy “how is that data being given to people?” “[data] should go to the administration because then what you’re really doing is just providing them with solid objective data” “Invading my privacy” “You’d be in big brother people” “it would be a difficult conversation to have with these residents that we’re going to be monitoring you” “Who else might review the data?”	Theme: Legal issues “some sort of waiver and they have to make sure they know they’re not hurting someone else or damaging property,” “know that they are liable, they are liable” “damage to property” “we have guidelines” “Whoever is the POA, it’s a power of attorney thing”
Theme: Training “need to have some degree of training for safety” “I like the print outs that we get” “it can be like some animated thing” “like a safety drivers list that everybody gets”	Theme: Marketing “electric power” “It would surprise me if there would be a personal market for that” “if It’s an industry standard, then it just is what it is.” “Mobility stores. Their catalog of safety items.”	Theme: Autonomy “The executive director of the facility … it has to go to them through approval” “family member, it probably depends on that person’s budget or their financial situation.” “if we’re going to implement it, it’s going to be everybody.” “it would be a difficult conversation to have with these residents that we’re going to be monitoring you” “Somebody else review occasionally what’s going on?”	Theme: Cost “if it’s like offered a monthly service, a trial of like a deposit kind of thing, security deposits” “is this covered by my insurance?”
Theme: Noise “worried about the vibrations, a dinging around and making it loose” “She needs to be, they need to be able to hear” “should draw attention. like a beeping noise”	Theme: Understanding “people that are somewhat cognitive” “I don’t know how it’s going to detect that we’re doing something unsafe” “I can’t picture what this is going to say.” “I just can’t get my head around what kind of technology thing needs because to me it’s all in the driver” “let me call my grandchild. They’ll tell me.”	Theme: Setting “we’re not allowed to do repairs or alter anybody’s devices” “you’re damaging the entire property” “It would be for newer residences. We wouldn’t be able to do it in our older ones.”