{"id":10068,"key":"Sig17","title":"Sig17","latest":{"id":1206561,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T20:23:34Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"Sig-17 is a Special Interest Group of [http://web.archive.org/web/20090715231553/http://www.resna.org:80/index.php RESNA] (Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America). This group provides a forum for individuals interested in internationally appropriate assistive technology.\n\nThe main focus of this group has been [http://web.archive.org/web/20060920120931/http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/e/l/elast10/public/html/SIG17/ps.html Project Sore Butts], an effort to address the problem of pressure ulcers as they affect individuals in developing countries. Sorebutts has also held several wheelchair cushion design contests. A paper presenting the results of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060920120911/http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/e/l/elast10/public/html/SIG17/cushion00/SoreButts2000Summary.pdf 2000 Cushion Design Contest] contains information and images of several wheelchair cushions.\n\nSig-17 and Sorebutts have also started developing alternative and augmentative communication strategies and held a [http://web.archive.org/web/20060920121013/http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/e/l/elast10/public/html/SIG17/post1996.html pressure sore prevention poster contest]in 1996.\n\n== External links ==\n\n[http://web.archive.org/web/20081007223639/http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/e/l/elast10/public/html/SIG17/ SIG17]\n\n[http://web.archive.org/web/20060920120931/http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/e/l/elast10/public/html/SIG17/ps.html Project Sore Butts]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Mobility and rehabilitation]]"}