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4. “Trends and issues in disability data and demographics” by Mitchell La Plante,Ph.D. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the DisabilityStatistics Center, University of California, San Francisco. This paperaddressed trends in disability data and demographics, including informationabout wheeled mobility user health, function, perceived disability, financialresources and unmet needs.Papers were distributed to attendees prior to the workshop. Two to fourparticipants were assigned to each paper to serve as paper discussants in orderto promote discussion about the paper’s contents and direct discussion towardsrecommendations for the Board’s research agenda. All participants were giventhe opportunity to respond to the papers after the presentations that were madeby the authors during the Workshop.An international group of human factors and ergonomics researchers, standardsdevelopers, designers, and computer modelers, many whom attended the 2001workshop, participated in the follow-up meeting. Sixty-seven registeredparticipants from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia,Austria, Sweden, and The Netherlands took part. A list of registered participantsis given in the Appendix.The meeting began on Thursday evening, October 9 and concluded on Saturdayafternoon, October 11, 2003. In addition to the commissioned work, a number ofother topics were presented and discussed at the Workshop. These specificallyaddressed accessibility guidelines and standards, advancements in humanmodeling, and the Board’s preliminary plans for anthropometric research ofmobility aid users.Eight presentations addressed accessibility guidelines and standards:• “Anthropometry and Accessibility Guidelines" by Edward Steinfeld• “The research behind the standard” by Robert Feeney• "Compliance analysis for disabled access" by Charles Han, John Kunz andKincho Law, Ph.D.• “Working area of wheelchairs – Details about some dimensions that arespecified in ISO” by Johann Ziegler• "Development of Australian standards and unmet research needs" byMurray Mountain• "Anthropometric research in Australia" by Rodney Hunter• "Disability Discrimination Act of 1995 (UK)" by Donald MacDonald, and• "Challenges with the ADAAG" by Marsha MazzSeveral others addressed human modeling of wheeled mobility aid users:• "Wheelchair simulation in virtual reality" by Michael Grant, Ph.D.Space Requirements for Wheeled Mobility 7