Designing For Empathy

Research Expanding Aging Experience Suit For Educational Purposes
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Research Expanding Aging Experience Suit For Educational Purposes
Byungsoo Kim, Hongyang Liu, Sharon Joines
Research in Ergonomics and Design (RED) Laboratory, College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Designing For Empathy

Research Expanding Aging Experience Suit For Educational Purposes
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With more and more aging issues under the contemporary circumstances, designers, researchers, and design educators need to pay attention to these issues in relation to the product design field. As an important aspect of developing design criteria, designing for empathy can be seen as a great approach to help designers and design student with the product, service, and system design. Developing empathy through experience provides opportunities for students to understand how the older adults feel, what they experience, and why they act in certain ways in their real life. Hence, kits or devices that can provide students with an aging experience can be important in the early stages of the product design process. In this paper, topics related to aging simulation, experience development, and a current lab aging kit will be explored.

 

Year: 2015