About the Authors

Johanne Mattie

Affiliation MAKE+, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Jaimie Borisoff

Jaimie_Borisoff@bcit.ca

‡ Senior Author

Affiliations Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, UBC Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Canada Research Chair in Rehabilitation Engineering Design, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, Biomedical Engineering Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

William C. Miller

Affiliations Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, UBC Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, GF Strong Rehabilitation Research Lab, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Borna Noureddin

Affiliation MAKE+, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: J Borisoff is an employee of PDG Mobility, the manufacturer of the Elevation Wheelchair. In addition, J Borisoff is listed on the following patents related to the Elevation wheelchair, and has a financial interests in the sale of the Elevation wheelchair product: US 7,950,684 (licensed to PDG Mobility); US 7,845,665 (licensed to PDG Mobility); US 8,042,824 (licensed to PDG Mobility); US 8,801,020 (licensed to PDG Mobility). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JM JB WM BN. Data curation: JM JB WM. Formal analysis: JM JB WM BN. Funding acquisition: JB. Investigation: JM JB WM. Methodology: JM JB WM BN. Project administration: JB. Resources: JB. Software: JB BN. Supervision: JM JB WM BN. Validation: JB BN. Visualization: JM JB BN. Writing – original draft: JM JB. Writing – review & editing: JM JB WM BN.