Employing the Inclusive Design Process to Design for All

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-76
Author(s):  
Jenna Mikus ◽  
Victoria Høisæther ◽  
Carmen Martens ◽  
Ubaldo Spina ◽  
Janice Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
Design For All

Inclusive Design: Excluding Users in a Conscious Way

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (38) ◽  
pp. 901-904
Author(s):  
Roel Kallmann
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Major Step ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Design For All ◽  
Conscious Process ◽  
Critical Aspects

In the ‘Inclusive Design’ or ‘Design for all’ approach according to the name one should include all users. Important in this approach is the idea to include a wide diversity of people. So defining your users or target groups is a major step towards ‘Design for all’. On the other hand excluding people isn't a mortal sin. As long as it is a conscious process. When at the end of the design process it becomes feasible that certain people are excluded then there will be a problem. P5 developed a method in defining profiles of use in terms of critical users, critical aspects and critical circumstances. Critical users are the starting point to keep in contact with end users during the design process. They can become a kind of hypothetical archetypes used by designers to focus their design on. This approach is used as a communication tool towards the design teams.

scholarly journals Understanding Inclusive Design Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 619-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicky Wilson ◽  
Avril Thomson ◽  
Angus Thomson ◽  
Alexander Freddie Holliman
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
User Needs ◽  
User Requirements ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Education Strategy ◽  
Uk Higher Education

AbstractThere is a need for responsible engineering design to accommodate the diverse user requirements that come with the global phenomenon of population ageing. Inclusive design can address these diverse requirements through the consideration of a wide diversity of user needs within the design process. However, uptake of inclusive design in industry is limited, with designer awareness of the approach and its associated methods and tools noted as barriers to its uptake. This research aims to understand the current approach to inclusive design education within UK Higher Education Institutions, utilising interviews with design educators and a student survey. The study concluded that teaching of inclusive design varied between institutions with conflicting responses from academics and students relating to the methodologies taught. This study recommends that greater transparency should be encouraged between institutions to encourage the development of a cohesive inclusive design education strategy, in addition to the development of a framework to aid the implementation of appropriate inclusive methods and tools within the design process.

An Evaluation of the Ergonomics of the QWERTY Keyboards

2014 ◽  
Vol 657 ◽  
pp. 1051-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Octavian Ciobanu
Keyword(s):  
Universal Design ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Ergonomic Design ◽  
Design Standards ◽  
Design For All ◽  
Novice Users ◽  
Typing Skills ◽  
Keyboard Layout

The ergonomic design of a keyboard layout needs expertise in design and ergonomic standards. The existence of different categories of users with slow typing skills, visually searching the apparently random keyboard, including novice users, elder persons and disabled persons conducts to the need of new keyboard layouts. Paper analyses some papers approaching the QWERTY keyboard layouts, the typing abilities of slow typing skills persons and discusses the existing standards in computer devices design and makes observations about design standards and ergonomic design features. There are presented some considerations about the necessity to implement the principles of Transgenerational Design, Inclusive Design, Design for All and Universal design to the design of new keyboard layouts.

scholarly journals INCLUSIVE CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES: ICT AS A TOOL TO SUPPORT THE DESIGN PROCESS AND SHARE KNOWLEDGE

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W11 ◽  
pp. 793-800
Author(s):  
S. Marconcini ◽  
V. Pracchi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Interactive Map ◽  
Municipal Administrators ◽  
Proper Perspective

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Within the European strategies for a sustainable development, the role of cultural heritage as an economic, environmental and social driver has become increasingly significant. As an asset in people’s lives, it’s necessary to assure anyone the opportunity to access it. For this reason, urban transformation policies must guarantee the proper compromise between the requirements of conservation and physical/cognitive accessibility. This entails a clear design complexity, which however cannot justify the lack of intervention, but must propose new governance models for an inclusive design process.</p><p>In a broader research framework, the implementation of ICT has turned out to be a solution that can address some issues in enhancing the level of inclusion in cultural heritage sites. Particularly, the conception of an interactive map has seemed the proper perspective of producing a feasible operative tool. The first aim is linked to the necessity of having an information system thank to which everyone, particularly users with special needs, could be able to organize their movements and be aware of the proposed services and fulfilled inclusive strategies. The second target is connected to the management of the projects related to the development of inclusion, therefore it is addressed to municipal administrators and other key actors involved in the governance of cultural heritage.</p><p>Finally, the discussion about the main objectives and features of an interactive map wants to highlight the role that ICT can assume within an inclusive design approach, for which is needed a tool able to support the intervention on the physical environment and offer further essential services.</p>

scholarly journals PERANCANGAN ALAT BANTU MEMBILAS PAKAIAN DENGAN PENDEKATAN DESAIN INKLUSIF UNTUK MENGURANGI RISIKO CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-171
Author(s):  
Gabriella Nadya Anggia ◽  
Winta Adhitia Guspara ◽  
Christmastuti Nur
Keyword(s):  
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Carpal Tunnel ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
Is Research ◽  
Tunnel Syndrome ◽  
Research And Design

Title: Design of Rinsing Clothes Tools with Inclusive Design Approach to Reduce Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Risk Based on case studies at Panti Wreda Perandan Padudan, Gondokusuman, Yogyakarta, the fact that the clothes that are washed by the elderly is not completely clean. One clean indicator of the laundry is seen from the absence of detergent foam that makes the water become cloudy when rinsing clothes. Manual rinsing process requires the work of both hands that seek friction and pressure (i.e. to rubben) so that the soap water contained in the fabric can come out. The movement of the evaporating on rinsing has a tendency to inflict numbness even pain (i.e. carpal tunnel syndrome) if done at high intensity. The condition can deteriorate in long-lasting routines in the elderly. In the process of cassing, the elderly have limited hand grips in conducting activities that are made repeatedly. With this problem, it is necessary to design the tools to rinse the clothes so as to minimize the foam attached to the clothes until the result of a cleaner laundry and can reduce the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome. The design of this product utilizes a two-stage inclusion approach, which is research and design designing. The research phase uses ergonomics- based methods with observation and interview techniques. The design process that was used after obtaining the designs statement was SCAMPER. Through this method, the tool is produced to rinse the laundry cleaner without experiencing the pain in the hands.

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