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3rd C : Comprehension









COMPREHENSION:

The designer analyses all the information gathered and methodically lists out his observations and perceptions of the issues involved and the causes behind. The design insights thus arrived form the basis for the design intervention.

SEATX:

Major pieces of information gathered:

  • Information: Problems for the elderly in terms of voluntary strength and joint mobility, leading to extreme pain

Design Insight: The design should be able to seat the elderly comfortably and supply either spatial ease or strength-based ease (or both) to the elderly to make it easier for them to move out of a car

  • Information: Height from seat-to-ground varies for each car

Design Insight: The device should height-compatible

  • Information: Elderly have high demands of comfort because of bone/muscle discomforts throughout their bodies

Design Insight: The device should be able to provide comfort in terms of the shape of seating as well as the material used 

  • Information: The elderly find the device should be easy-to-use

Design Insight: Handy and lightweight design

  • Information: The elderly aren’t technologically advanced 

Design Insight: The device’s working should not be too technologically complex

  • Information: The elderly need to feel independent from children while using this device

Design Insight: The device should aesthetically make the elderly proud and happy of their freedom 

  • Information: The elderly are sometimes scared of complex new-age devices that might cause injury

Design Insight: The device should be safe and reliable and easy to use, along with regular assistance/checking from the team over its usage period

  • Information: Some elderly are completely unable to move in the limited space available

Design Insight: The device needs to be automated to a certain extent to facilitate movement from one location/orientation to another without any user muscle input required

  • Information: The cars already have very less left after seating, so no space for the device as such

Design Insight: The device should be such that it takes up zero/less volume

  • Information: The device needs to be usable by the user in multiple cars

Design Insight:  The device should ideally be retrofittable so that it can be easily used as a plug-and-use module


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