A Disability-Oriented Analysis Procedure for Leisure Rehabilitation Product Design

Abstract

The leisure activities of current disabled people are primary static types rather than dynamic types. However, most marketed leisure exercise products seldom consider the requirements of the disabled people especially their slow reactions on hand grasp and eye perception. This situation always makes the disabled people be unable to do normal lifestyle activities. The preliminary investigation showed that certain cerebral palsy people with minor disorders have strong desires to do leisure rehabilitation activities. As such, the objective of this research is to try to focus on the redesign of certain leisure exercise products for the cerebral palsy people and derive specific combination of functions and design guidelines for designer reference. During the development process, an AIO (A: activity; I: interest; O: opinion) questionnaire regarding user feelings, preferences and requirements is designed and distributed the related subjects to explore more precise user requirements. The analytic results are forwarded to the process of conjoint analysis and quality function deployment to help identify some critical design characteristics for the design of leisure rehabilitation products. Several design alternatives are generated based on the proposed design criteria. The generated design alternatives are represented in 3D rendering images with the assistance of computer-assisted software. It is expected that the proposed design process of the leisure rehabilitation product development and recommended design alternatives can provide designers with disability leisure exercise product design guidelines and requirements.