A slanted castor wheel enables pushing manual wheelchairs from the side to improve social interaction

• Matto Leeuwis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: m.leeuwis@erasmusmc.nl

  Affiliations Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8728-0589

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• Job Sesink,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Ziggy Mobility B.V., Delft, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3769-3522

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• Lucy Bennett,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Ziggy Mobility B.V., Delft, The Netherlands, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Emma Schippers,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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• Marieke W. Vassen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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• Bram T. Sterke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Katherine L. Poggensee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine L. Poggensee, Heike Vallery

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Heike Vallery

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine L. Poggensee, Heike Vallery

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Institute of Automatic Control, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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