SIMULATING GLOBAL UTILITY OF DESIGN SOLUTIONS TO ELDERLY FALLS BY BUILDING RELEVANT USAGE SEGMENTATION
DS 77: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2014 13th International Design Conference
Year: 2014
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
Author: Bekhradi ,A.; Yannou ,B.; Farel ,R.; Jena, S.; Zimmer, B.
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN SUPPORT TOOLS
Page(s): 1025-1034
Abstract
Usage coverage simulations are proposed for evaluating the global effectiveness of design solutions for the widespread issue of the elderly fall. A Design Oracle is set to simulate the usage segments, or space, based on experts’ heuristic rules in a declarative way. For this usage scenarios space, two existing design solutions are evaluated in terms of real performances vector. Comparing solutions’ performances with the ideal performances, i.e. where there are no pain points, shows that there are important “value buckets” to be covered by innovative solutions, maximizing the utility creation.
Keywords: expert heuristic rules, usage scenario, evaluation