Table 1.

Participants who took part in the qualitative studies.

Study	Participants	Details	Designation	Background
Profile generation	Children with CP	3 Female, 1 Male; the children’s condition varied from one child to another	C1	Spastic quadriplegia with spastic tone
			C2	Right side hemiplegia, with right arm/hand severely affected
			C3	Hemiplegia, with mild tone
			C4	Dystonia
Focus group	Occupational therapists	6 Female, 1 Male; approximately, an average of 18 years of experience in occupational therapy; institutions varied from; iLearn, Child Development Assessment Unit, Aġenzija Sapport, Augmentative and Alternative Communication Unit, Occupational Therapy Department at the Malta general hospital and UM a	O1	Orthotist/Prosthetist and OT with previous experience with children with CP
			O2	Senior OT
			O3	Over 20 years of experience as paediatric OT
			O4	Paediatric OT
			O5	OT with previous experience on assistive devices
			O6	Has previous experience as a paediatric OT
			O7	Over 20 years of experience as paediatric OT
	Parents of children with CP	6 Female, 2 Male; average age of children is 10.5 years (range 5–14 years); 3 of the children had siblings, whilst the other 5 did not	P1	Child has mild CP
			P2	Child has mild CP
			P3	Child has severe CP
			P4	Child has quadriplegic CP
			P5	Child has spastic diplegia CP
			P6	Child has hemiplegic CP
			P7	Child has hemiplegic CP
			P8	Child has quadriplegic CP
	Technical experts	2 Female, 4 Male	T1	Professor at the UM with background in electrical and control systems engineering, robotics and bioengineering
			T2	Associate professor at the UM with background in artificial intelligence, digital game development, web science and human computer interaction
			T3	Masters by research student in the area of systems and control engineering at the UM
		All the technical experts work at the UM	T4	Senior lecturer at the UM with background in electrical engineering, human machine interface and biomedical signal processing
		All participants have a good background in assistive or rehabilitation devices	T5	Senior lecturer at the UM with background in computer information systems, user-centred design and computer science
			T6	Lecturer at the UM with background in electrical engineering, image processing and assistive technology

OT: Occupational Therapist.

^aUM: University of Malta.