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3.007 DesignEnergy @ Home, Design for Our Elderly
Team 2 Khor Wanxuan (1000456)Song Zhenfeng (1000431)Leon Zhi-Min Abigail (1000732)Tan Wei Feng Andrew (1000466)
Important Stages of Design
Documentation- deliverable documents that will be reviewed and used to complete Design
Information gathering- information from this step will feed into creating our documents
Evaluation- a technique that inspects a prototype or system
ANALYSIS phase
DefineHome: The residential setting the Elderly lives in with their familyElderly: People who are 65 and above, semi ambulant and financially stableEnergy: The strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.
Site Analysis: Visit Old
Folk’s Home to
understand the user
Background Research
on likely problems
the elderly face
Collation of DataInterview:
Consulted a doctor
from NUH
Narrowing down
More research
on mobility
Problem:mobility
Needs further
narrowing down
Focus on:Elderly who are-semi-ambulant -stay with their family-family members are not around to care of them most of the time-are financially stable
Strategizing
Possible problems in the house
Strategizing for each
area
Causes of mobility problems:-problems with the body such as cartilage loss or diseases-Problems with mindset such as lack of motivation’ resilience
Prototype 1Ideation Phase6-3-5
Focused problem:Falling
More research on falling
Narrow down on
the strategies
Realized we had too
many ideasNarrow down
Prototype2
Looking at existing products
New Idea
Pin Up 2
Methodology
Research
Pin up 1
Airbag Vest
The definition of a fall is: “A sudden, unintentional change in position causing an individual to land at a lower level, on an object, the floor, the ground or other surface”
Falls:-Over 60% of falls that lead to hospitalizations occur in the home.-Falls rates in residential care settings are often considerably higher than those in community or hospital settings.
Prevent falls from occurring
Minimize injury during the fall
MEMS Accelerometer with orthogonal axes detects angles can differentiate between a fall and everyday activity
When you fall, the air bag inflates in less than a tenth of a second to protect the user
Our new Design
Idea
Japan’s Human Airbag worth UK$700
Swenden’s Motorcycle airbag helmet
Ideation Phase6-3-5
Another way to convert electricity is to use something like the shaker flashlight, where the shaking motion create electricityIn our case, we would store the electricityHowever the electricity obtained from this motion is very small.Hence we decided to add an exercise function in our product. Elderly need to pull 2 elastic ropes from stomach to width of arms and from that motion, it shakes the shaker components vigorously, to generate more energy.
Biggest issue faced by the elderly:Mobility
Re-emphasized on Mobility being the biggest issue face by the elderly
Spatial Diagram of
a house
Most accident
prone area- Toilet
We focused on a minor problem- too cold in the bathroom
Concept: Design ThinkingWe have worked towards the goal of addressing the elderly’s mobility instead of addressing the parameters of the problems the elderly faces.