| Summary: | 博士 === 國立成功大學 === 工業設計學系碩博士班 === 96 === The black-box process of making devices by medical teams is exclusive. Thus, the purpose of this research is the assistive device design method used by product designers. The new method provides assistive device design model for product designer. Using the SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat) and TOWS (Threat, Opportunity, Weakness and Strength), proposing an innovative assistive device design method – AD-SWOT (Assistive Devices-Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat) and AD-TOWS (Assistive Devices-Threat, Opportunity, Weakness and Strength). Through previous case studies where the innovative assistive design procedure is actually utilized, established Enumerative and Deductive Design Methods for Assistive Devices. The two methods developed the bathing and the hair-washing assistive devices for Hemiplegia, after the product operation experiment; it verified the feasibility of the innovative assistive device design method.
The research uses Enumerative and Deductive Design Methods for Assistive Devices as a foundation, and established an assistive device design method – the Graphical Design Methods for Assistive Devices used by general product designers. The characteristics of the Graphical Design Methods for Assistive Devices is the professional division of labor of the therapist and the product designer, it is suitable for product designers with no experience in assistive device design. The most innovative of the three, the procedure for Enumerative Design Methods for Assistive Devices is the most simple, but the designer still needs professional physiological knowledge, it is more suitable for the use of designers with a lot of experience in assistive device design. The procedure for Deductive Design Methods for Assistive Devices is more systematic, it is suitable for the use of designers with human physiological background. The characteristics of the Graphical Design Methods for Assistive Devices is professional division of labor, the therapist after evaluating the user conditions, the therapist according to the steps proceeds to use graphical product type development to propose a concrete design concept, which is a general product design method.
In order to verify the effectiveness of Graphical Design Methods for Assistive Devices, there are two evaluated experiments in this study. On the one hand, through the evaluation by product designers with over five years of experience, the differences between the Graphical Design Methods for Assistive Devices and the general product design method, the Graphical Design Methods for Assistive Devices in terms of original, trend, and influential are better then the Morphological Charts Method; in terms of being well-made and orderly it is better then the Brainstorming. On the other hand, using the Graphical Design Methods for Assistive Devices to develop face-washing assistive devices for Hemiplegia, and according to the Usability Engineering performing a product testing experiment; the results of the experiment verify the effects of the product, and it also verifies the feasibility of the Graphical Design Methods for Assistive Devices. The value of the Graphical Design Methods for Assistive Devices is that it allows the exertion of the expertise of the therapists and the designers, providing the group a way to have an effective cooperation method. In the future, using Graphical Design Methods for Assistive Devices can establish a communication platform for the therapists and designers, and allow the assistive device designs for Hemiplegia to be recorded and extended.
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