A friendly rest room developing toilets of the future for disabled and elderly people
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Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
Sprache: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Berlin ; Tokyo ; Washington, DC
IOS Press
[2011]
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Schriftenreihe: | Assistive technology research series
volume 27 |
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- This book addresses the topic of toilet design, but instead of focusing on the typical able bodied user, it takes the various needs and limited abilities of older and/or disabled people as its starting point (human centered design). This follows the principles of 'Inclusive Design': designs taking into account the needs of the most challenged, will also have benefits for the healthy. For the most part, this book is a spin-off of an EU-funded research and development project called the 'Friendly Rest Room for Elderly People' (FFR), which ran from 2001 to 2005. During that period a consortium of