A Study Of Design Methods Of Intelligent Home Care Products Based On User Experiences

Aging is a worldwide problem, This problem in China is increasingly significant. However, because of the shortage of social care resources, more elderly people need to face their own independent living. In order to extend their independently living time, the intelligent home care product design research is of highly importance.This paper firstly investigates the special physiological and psychological characteristics of elderly, analyzes the changes in all aspects of the human aging process, and accordingly come to the elderly user groups some basic physiological and psychological needs, laid the foundation for the subsequent design theory and design practice; secondly, the subject investigated the status quo of existing intelligent home care products design study. On the basis of analyzing domestic and foreign-related design methods and design guidelines in recent years, this study generalized existing intelligent home care products design into three categories, namely, monitoring safety of life, assisting health pension, and servicing psychological emotion. Besides, this paper objectively analyzes the existing design theories based on these three types of products. One of the key outcomes in the subject is proposing an evaluation method of intelligent home care design products, including a set of indicators, namely the feasibility, effectiveness and universality. Based on the three indicators of the evaluation system, the subject deeply compared the advantages and disadvantages of the existing intelligent home care products design methods or theories. With the Combination of user experience design, this paper further proposed an effective method for this type of products design, which integrated the user-centered design methods into intelligent home care products design. Finally, this paper designed a tea table as a case, verified this method. After the completion of the tea table design, using the product evaluation-safety, practical features, ease of use and mental function, we evaluated this intelligent tea table design.Analysis and evaluation results show that the proposed design method in this paper has certain reference value and significance, in particular, can effectively enhance the user’s subjective satisfaction.