Mobility Aid Design for the Elderly (MADE): a design thinking approach using a smart walker as a case study DOI Creative Commons
Bao-Yi Zhang, Zongsheng Wang, Zhe Li

и другие.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 11(1)

Опубликована: Ноя. 5, 2024

Assistive technologies (ATs) are essential for promoting social equity, particularly as the global population ages. This study addresses persistent issue of high abandonment rates in mobility aids, specifically smart walkers (SWs), by developing a systematic design thinking methodology called Mobility Aid Design Elderly (MADE). The MADE approach integrates Stanford Thinking Model (SDTM) with specific methods tailored SWs. It includes stages empathy, define, ideate, prototype, and test, each providing actionable steps to ensure user-centered design. was applied case involving 20 participants from urban settings, including elderly users designers, using combination random, snowball, purposive sampling. Interviews utilized Evaluation Grid Method (EGM) were analyzed Quantification Theory Type I (QTT1) TRIZ. found significant cognitive differences preferences between esthetics digital features. These findings used generate innovative guidelines reduce these gaps improve user acceptance paper discusses need continuous innovation assistive technology enhance inclusion inequality. study's limitations, such use images instead physical products, its focus, acknowledged, suggesting areas future research.

Язык: Английский

Research hotspots and trends of molecular dynamics simulation in membrane-based water treatment: A bibliometric analysis from 2003 to 2023 DOI
Caihong Liu,

Han Liang,

Ao Shuai

и другие.

Separation and Purification Technology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 358, С. 130398 - 130398

Опубликована: Ноя. 5, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Mobility Aid Design for the Elderly (MADE): a design thinking approach using a smart walker as a case study DOI Creative Commons
Bao-Yi Zhang, Zongsheng Wang, Zhe Li

и другие.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 11(1)

Опубликована: Ноя. 5, 2024

Assistive technologies (ATs) are essential for promoting social equity, particularly as the global population ages. This study addresses persistent issue of high abandonment rates in mobility aids, specifically smart walkers (SWs), by developing a systematic design thinking methodology called Mobility Aid Design Elderly (MADE). The MADE approach integrates Stanford Thinking Model (SDTM) with specific methods tailored SWs. It includes stages empathy, define, ideate, prototype, and test, each providing actionable steps to ensure user-centered design. was applied case involving 20 participants from urban settings, including elderly users designers, using combination random, snowball, purposive sampling. Interviews utilized Evaluation Grid Method (EGM) were analyzed Quantification Theory Type I (QTT1) TRIZ. found significant cognitive differences preferences between esthetics digital features. These findings used generate innovative guidelines reduce these gaps improve user acceptance paper discusses need continuous innovation assistive technology enhance inclusion inequality. study's limitations, such use images instead physical products, its focus, acknowledged, suggesting areas future research.

Язык: Английский

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