| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 管理科學研究所 === 93 === As the improvement of medical technology and sanitation, the demographics of society have been ageing in Taiwan. Furthermore, owing to the rapidly growth of economic, people have more income on their jobs payment, therefore, the demands of varied and diversified products have been increased dramatically. However, under the limited resource, many enterprises have to use their resources very effectively, in order to satisfy the majority of customers and reach the maximum profit. The concepts of “Universal Design (UD)” are not only concerned about disable groups, but also can extend their edges to satisfy the needs of other potential customers.
Throughout the execution of questionnaire survey, the study can therefore probe some scenarios in many enterprises which are applying the “Universal Design” to develop their new products. Furthermore, electric appliances, information & communication, and furniture & bathroom products were selected as sampling industries, and proper statistic methods were applied to analyse the acquired data. Hence, the results are presented as follows:
1.As the result indicated that the majority of the enterprises showed poor knowledge on the cognition of Universal Design, in other words, the concepts of UD are not grounded on those enterprises (45.2%). In addition, only a few companies realize the real meaning of UD (19.9%), nevertheless, the generality of companies consider it as strategic development in the future market.
2.The knowledge of UD is coming from newspapers, magazines and also academic institutes in the major enterprises. The major channels to acquire the further information are from professional textbooks and design journals.
3.Not many enterprises used the concepts of UD as a design strategy on their product development. In the near future, the concept of UD is not still a major concern on developing new products. Having said that, a few companies are aware of the values of UD on extending their markets.
4.The designers are more aware of the values of UD; the products showed the more conform to the principles of Universal. However, their correlation degree is not so robust.
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