| Summary: | 碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 工業設計系碩士班 === 101 === In modern societies, the living standard and the quality of medical care had improved significantly. Therefore, longer and healthier life is becoming much easier nowadays. The newly or potentially retiring senior citizens will have to face with many problems after their retirement, for instance, having too much free time suddenly, deteriorating physical health, gradually alienating children, lack of specific hobbies, and the passing away of relatives and friends, etc. Such problems will prone to cause physical and psychological crises ion these senior citizens. In Japan, their populations are ageing faster and earlier than in Taiwan. In order to ensure a more energetic and active retirement life for their senior citizens, various electric pets had been created in Japan for almost twenty years.
This research defined people who are fifty-five to sixty-four years old as “New Young-olds”, and also intended to take this golden age while they are still in good physical and mental conditions, to enhance the living quality of their later life effectively with the right kinds of electronic pets. In order to explore the preferences and requirements of these “New Young-olds” in Taiwan for electronic pets, this research conducted a questionnaire survey. The results showed that they mostly prefer electric pets with white color and shape of real pets, with male respondents prefer electric pets that are shaped and colored like real pets, and the female respondents prefer electric pets that are shaped like real pets and colored vividly. In terms of the materials, the male respondents prefer soft flexible plastics, and the female respondents prefer soft fluff. In terms of the size of electric pets, all respondents prefer to have medium size. Wish that these conclusions will be able to provide the industries with useful reference for developing right kinds of electronic pets for “New Young-olds” in Taiwan.
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