Research On Design Of Fitness Equipment For Elderly Community Based On Behavior

As the abundance of material life and the rise of mass sports, exercise is required for all elderly people. Subject to physiological function in the elderly, the environmental adaptability of recession and activity space is limited, the elderly community fitness equipment plays an increasingly important role in the in the elderly fitness life. However, nowadays the fitness equipment is undeserved, most copied completely still continue to use the public fitness equipment. This provides a chance to modify and redesign the new fitness equipment for the elderly.In the design world, people-oriented design trend, unconscious behavior design is representative. And unconscious behavior has the remarkable characteristic in lots of behavior of the elderly. That comes from two aspects, the one is rich life experience making the elderly easily to depend on the feeling and experience to do things; the other is functional degradation leading to be unable to control and detection of physiological special automatism. In view of this, this essay obtains from the elder’s unconscious behavior, to design and research on the elderly community fitness equipment.Based on the analysis and conclusion of unconscious related theory, this essay supplement and perfect the concept of stimuli in the unconscious behavior and design of cross field. Stimulus is not only the automatism inducing factors, but also an important focus of the design, at the same time, the elderly also more sensitive to stimuli., According to the division stimuli this essay induced the physical, environmental cause, physiological trigger and hybrid of 4 types of elderly common automatism. From the design perspective, puts forward the strengthening, weakening, replacement, and associated 4 kinds of processing methods of stimulus, and instructions relationship between each type of unconscious behavior and design. Based on the analysis of the relationship with the stimulus, the elderly unconscious behavior and design, forms the general design process. This essay also through actual investigation and study analysis, puts forward countermeasures for elderly community fitness equipment design, and guides the concrete design practice. Finally, output design assessment carried out to verify the operability of theories.