| Summary: | 碩士 === 長庚大學 === 工業設計研究所 === 94 === Abstract
Because of nursing personnel’s profession specificity, which requires long periods of walking, standing up, prolonged exposure leads to foot discomfort and injuries. Therefore, shoe comfort is especially important to nursing personnel.
Because the current market lacks shoes specifically designed for nursing personnel, and from the perspective of appearance mainly only color is given consideration but not so much to profession and aesthetics, this research hopes to study and discuss profession specificity, foot comfort, and suitable aesthetics to design nurse shoes and satisfy their profession specificity and work needs with an innovative approach.
This study has three objectives: (1) Develop design concepts for nurse shoes through profession specificity of nursing personnel. (2) Innovatively design work shoes for nursing personnel. (3) Enhance comfort level and aesthetics of these shoes and meet special work needs of nursing personnel.
This study is divided into three parts. (1) User survey. 112 nursing personnel from a teaching hospital were surveyed to understand their common and individual needs of nursing shoes. (2) Interview of nurses to understand the relationship between nurse profession specificity and nurse shoes. The 24 interviewees were screened and picked from the 112 surveyed. Compilation of surveys and results to propose a framework of nurse shoe design, nurse shoe design, and actual shoe production by manufacturer. (3) Finally, screening and picking eight nurses from the 24 interviewed with different seniority, service unit, with and without potential foot diseases to conduct nurse shoe testing and evaluation.
Research results show that: (1) Nurses with different service units, different seniority, and with or without potential foot diseases have drastically different needs for nurse shoes. (2) Through the interviews, it was discovered that although nurses have different needs for nurse shoes, they also have common needs. (3) Nurse profession specificity, work nature, and designing of individual nurse shoe components are all interrelated.
With the above results combined, the proposed design framework of this study can be applied on future nurse shoe design. However, this discussion focuses solely on profession specificity and nurse shoe appearance. Future studies should primarily focus on foot contour, in order to avoid discrepancies between the foot contour and a shoe last.
In addition to subjective considerations when conducting a shoe evaluation, future studies should incorporate foot pressure to conduct objective evaluation certification. The final proposal of this study—“profession specificity shoe design framework”—can be applied when designing other professional shoes.
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