The Design of Home Appliances for Young and Old Consumers: 2 (de Nederlandse Monumenten Van Geschiedenis en Kunst. de Prov) - Softcover

Is daily-life equipment sufficiently adapted to use by the elderly? Or are product developers biased towards young, healthy males with technical skills and insight? When designing products to be handled at home or in a professional situation or in the public domain, designers ought to base their choices of technical properties on the capacities, habits and preferences of the user group. Although there is a continuing increase in the grey sector of society, design-relevant data on elderly users are almost nonexistent. This book attempts to narrow this gap in gerontechnology: product design for the elderly.
Product developers and innovation managers are invited to implement the checklist of guidelines, to initiate or enhance their user-centred design work.

Dr. Ir. Adinda Freudenthal is a lecturer in Informational Ergonomics at the Subfaculty.