Heuristics in Ergonomic Design of Portable Control Devices for the Elderly

Butlewski, Marcin; Tytyk, Edwin; Wróbel, Kamil; Miedziarek, Sławomir

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07446-7_3

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“…Moreover, such insights based on scholarly inquiry can also be relevant because they can show us the eventual heuristics and usability dimensions that need to be revised and/or expanded in the guidelines. This aspect seems crucial due to the large variation in the design characteristics for older adults and the corresponding difficulty that practitioners face in identifying a set of validated UI design criteria that would be applicable to the general population of older adults (Butlewski, Tytyk, Wróbel, & Miedziarek, 2014). Surprisingly, even though the first guidelines for the age-friendly design of feature phones were published more than 10 years ago (Pattison & Stedmon, 2006), we are not familiar with any attempt to more closely scrutinize their contents and evolution.…”

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confidence: 99%

Design of Mobile Phones for Older Adults: An Empirical Analysis of Design Guidelines and Checklists for Feature Phones and Smartphones

Petrovčič

Taipale

Rogelj³

et al. 2017

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design of Mobile Phones for Older Adults: An Empirical Analysis of Design Guidelines and Checklists for Feature Phones and Smartphones

Petrovčič

Taipale

Rogelj³

et al. 2017

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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“…In practice, ethnography design and its stimulated observations are a valuable source of data, due to especially elderly users often being unable or unwilling to articulate their specific needs or concerns, while observations of them are a valuable source of information in design [14]. It should be noted that there is a need to support the ethnography design approach with reliable evaluations, which in the case of elderly people is much more difficult [15]. Due to limited space in the article, a number of publications and practical approaches (e.g., reverse engineering) on ergonomic design for elderly people is omitted.…”

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“…This has brought a considerable effect not only in the soughtafter design data, but it also allowed the determination of previously not anticipated needs (ways of dealing with containers after they have been emptied, methods of storage). Design proceedings with elderly users showed once again [15] that verbal assessments, even when supported by methods such as QFD [20] and the NASA TLX [21] do not work. Hence, a method based on simulation was applied, and for the evaluation were used both quantifiable characteristics (magnitude of force and range of motion) as well as methods aggregating these values (in particular, the EAWS method has proved to be especialy useful).…”

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Practical Approaches in the Design of Everyday Objects for the Elderly

Butlewski

2014

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Ergonomic design for elderly people requires consideration of factors relating to both the dwindling reserves of resources as well as the specific needs of the elderly. This requires the use of special techniques both in terms of data collection, for which methods of ethnography design can be used, as well as transferring the identified needs into product characteristics for which, in addition to traditional decision-making tools such as QFD, virtual modeling can be used successfully. The article presents the sequence of actions recommended in ergonomic design for the elderly in which the most important element is the observation of elderly people and the determination of the causes of their specified behavior. The article identifies a list of the most important ergonomic criteria for the design of everyday objects for the elderly which include: anthropometric characteristics, abilities of effectors and receptors, capacity, ability to process information, resistance to physical and organizational environmental factors, as well as tastes and personality patterns. Expanding on these criteria a design method is developed, and finally a practical example is described in which the method is used to develop solutions aiding the ergonomic accessibility of objects for the elderly.

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“…Notwithstanding the limitation, heuristics are well accepted, as they help in divergent thinking. The existing heuristic approaches in design research are SCAMPER [14], TRIZ [15], SYNECTICS [16], 77 Design heuristics [17], Design heuristics for additive manufacturing [18], Transformation design theory [19], Portability design heuristics [20], Design heuristics set for assistive product design [21], Design aesthetic heuristics [22], Design heuristics for innovative packaging [23], Heuristics in ergonomic design of portable control devices for elderly [24] and new design heuristics for digital era [25] etc.…”

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Introducing Design Heuristics for Furniture Design in a Furniture Design Course

Das¹,

Das²

2021

DS 110: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (EPDE 2021)

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Concept generation in the early design phase is a deciding factor in any design innovation process. And the magnitude of the concepts generated in the initial design phase is the measurable criteria for success. Experienced designers travel through their world of objects, observations, encoded information, and collection of prior experiences to externalize multiple concepts through different tools. However, novice designers experience difficulties exploring the problem space and fixate on the concepts with the initial features. Researchers suggested many formal tools or methods for concept generation in the early phases of design to overcome these issues. Many of these are difficult to use by novice designers and many of these are very generic to product design. This paper discusses a concept generation tool for novice furniture designers 'Design Heuristics for Furniture Design' (DHfFD) with special emphasis on the chair, which has been developed from the study and analysis of award-winning furniture (chair) and published compendium of well-known, successful designs. To understand how the DHfFD cards are perceived by novice designers in use, the tool was introduced in a furniture design course, and a qualitative study was performed with novice design students at the Department of Design, IIT Guwahati. It is observed from the study that the DHfFD tool helps to generate diverse concepts within a short duration of time. This research integrates design tools and cognition in design; accordingly, it recommends using 'Design Heuristics for Furniture Design' (DHfFD) in a furniture design course.

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Heuristics in Ergonomic Design of Portable Control Devices for the Elderly

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

Design of Mobile Phones for Older Adults: An Empirical Analysis of Design Guidelines and Checklists for Feature Phones and Smartphones

Design of Mobile Phones for Older Adults: An Empirical Analysis of Design Guidelines and Checklists for Feature Phones and Smartphones

Practical Approaches in the Design of Everyday Objects for the Elderly

Introducing Design Heuristics for Furniture Design in a Furniture Design Course

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