Launching experiment-driven research and maintaining research community for assistive technology: a look at experiments in presentations given to the technical committee on well-being information technology

The Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology is a research group that has been steadily holding meetings on assistive technology in Japan for twenty years. This study looked at the way experiments presented to the committee were conducted between 2013 and 2015 in order to collect basic data that would contribute to alleviating the difficulty of conducting experiments having persons with disabilities as participants. A total of 330 presentations were given during the study period. The median number of participants in experiments having persons with disabilities as participants in was four, and the mode was one. The median number of participants in experiments having able-bodied persons as participants in was six, and the mode was six.