The StairCycler

Computer Table

This is my computer table. It is just the top without the legs.

School Desk

Ergonomics and Anthropometry Part 1

1. Compare the two types of setup and state reasons why one of the setup is preferred.

The setup where the man wearing black clothes is preferred rather than the setup with the man in the white suit. This is because the man in black's desk is not cluttered, is very neat has a chair with lots of freedom, while the man in white's desk is totally cluttered, has no space for other things is unsightly and the chair is really obstructing the user.

2. What are the area of considerations when designing a conducive and comfortable workplace?

The considerations are: The chair, the amount of space on the desk, the arrangement of things placed on the table, the things placed on the table.

3. State the reasons why these considerations are important.

It is because the chair determines the amount of freedom the person has, the amount of space allows whether there are many or few things, the arrangement determines the look of the table, which makes the workplace more conducive, and the things placed on the table determines if the table is cluttered or not.

Essential Questions Mindmap

This is my mindmap on my selected essential questions.

Elderly Friendly Environment

This is my video on the elderly challenge. It is a 361 degrees view of the whole 'house'. The main features are:
The low bed
The low bed allows elderly to get on and off their beds easily and not require any strenuous movement.

The doors
There are doors which connect all the rooms together so that an elderly person could easily move from place, taking the shortest path, rather then having to walk through the other rooms to get to the kitchen.

The toilet handrails
There are multiple handrails to allow the elderly to grab in case of emergency, like slipping on wet ground. These bars also can be used as supports when the elderly is moving around.

The big toilet floor mat
This big toilet floor mat is to have more space occupied so that more area would be less slippery but also not like carpets so that not so much washing is required.

The low sinks
Both toilet and kitchen sinks are made low to allow easy reach for the elderly. As some elderly may also drop things, these low sinks prevent slightly more the event of dropping items, such as plates.

The somewhat simple cooking stove
This cooking stove is quite simple so that it is easy for elderly to use.

The 55inch LED TV
This is so that elderly with short or maybe also long sightedness can watch TV without straining their eyes that much compared to a small and blur TV.

Abram'sEssentialQuestions

These are the 5 essential questions that I thought of for the elderly challenge:

1. How are the elderly doing now?

2. Would the elderly feel comfortable with me helping and my solution?

3. Not all elderly have physical problems, so what is the most important thing that all the elderly need and want?

4. Will the elderly really need help?

5. Do the elderly want help?

My top 3 essential questions:

1. Not all elderly have physical problems, so what is the most important thing that all the elderly need and want?

Explanation: Not all the elderly have physical problems, so how is the best way to let all the elderly and even society use my solution. I want to know what the best way to do things to impact more or all the elderly, not just the disabled elderly.

2. Would the elderly feel comfortable with me helping and my solution?

Explanation: I have this question so that I will know whether the elderly would use my solution because they might need it but do not want to use it maybe because they do not know how to use it or do not trust it, etc.

3. Do the elderly want help?

Explanation: I ask this question because if the elderly do not even want help, then what is the point of helping them?