A study of the Elderly Bathing Chair from the Viewpoints of Universal Design

• Main Authors: Shin-Hsin Wei, 魏世昕
• Other Authors: Chuan-Chin Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2z4t9w

碩士 === 國立臺中科技大學 === 商業設計系碩士班 === 103 === In recent years, Taiwan has been an aging society. In order to satisfy more users, many products are designed based on the universal design. Allowing users to use the products comfortably, and reducing the accident while using the products, are the purpose of universal design. The study investigate the bathing chair through the perspective of universal design. In order to let the elderly take bath smoothly, safely and easily during the process, to meet their requirement, the design of bathing chair was based on Mr. Satoshi Nakagawa&;apos;&;apos;s concept and the application of UD. After investigating the current usage habit of the elderly using bathing chair, the designer propose a new design of bathing chair on the basis of seven principles and three supplementary principles of universal design. The newly designed bathing chair aims at improving the using situation and meeting requirements of the elderly. Finally, the study evaluates the newly designed bathing chair and market-available bathing chairs by the 5 indicators of universal design: safety, usability, beauty, operation, and economical, to see the result of each indicator. Designing bathing chair based on universal design, and investigating the relation between the elderly bathing habit and bathing chair, can improve the using situation and meet the requirement, and also became the guideline of the future studies.