A Study Of Context-based Product Design For Home-based Elderly Care

In recent years,with China’s rapid economic development,the medical environment has also been greatly improved,as well as the impact of the national family planning policy implemented after the reform and opening up,which has led China to enter an early ageing society.At present,the old-age care models that exist in China are mainly divided into three models: home care,community care and institutional care,while home care can satisfy the old people’s old-age care in their place of origin and also reduce the financial pressure of the state,which is in line with both the social background and the traditional Chinese cultural background.By introducing contextual theory,this thesis conducts research on the design of ageing-in-place products to make them better serve people in order to improve the quality of life of the elderly at home.Firstly,this project elaborates the research background,understands the current situation of the context theory and the development of home care at home and abroad,and clarifies the research objectives and design direction of the project.Through relevant literature research,the use and advantages of contextual theory are summarised and analysed.Secondly,the characteristics of home care users are analysed,and the characteristics of the home care model are summarised and compared with the advantages and disadvantages of community care and institutional care;based on the context theory,the types of home care contextual elements are classified into user contextual elements,product contextual elements,environmental contextual elements and time contextual elements,and summarised and analysed;in addition,the home care products and interaction modes in different contexts are also analysed.In addition,the products and interaction patterns in different contexts are analysed,as well as an in-depth analysis of the case studies of ageing-in-place products in the living context.Then,through qualitative research(interviews),in-depth interviews were conducted with elderly people at home,and the results were analysed and integrated using contextual analysis.Further quantitative research(questionnaire survey method)was conducted on the elderly at home users,the data obtained was analysed and the results were used as a basis for extracting typical situations,establishing user personas,constructing relevant elderly at home situations,and conducting in-depth analysis of typical elderly at home situations to further summarise user pain points,demand points and design elements.Finally,using the hierarchical analysis method,we obtain the weighting of the demand points and design elements,complete the selection of demand points and design elements based on the weighting,propose design strategies based on the design elements,complete the design practice,and evaluate the design solutions.In conclusion,this project starts from the contextual theory and aims to achieve the improvement of the quality of life of the elderly at home,and conducts an in-depth research on the design of the elderly at home products to improve the experience of the elderly at home through the design of the elderly at home products.