The challenge
Our body and perception change in later life. This affects the experience of products and services. Nevertheless, focussing on age-related limitations can result in products that merely solve problems for people in later life, rather than supporting them to solve difficulties themselves.
Year
2022
Keywords
Inclusive design
Accessibility
3D printing
Discipline
Experience Design
Design Research
Collaboration
frog Design
Universal Design Expert Award Winner
Universal Design Insititute honored this project with Universal Design Expert Award during Munich Creative Business Week 2022.
Published article
on frogVoices and republished on UX magazine.
Scholarship Funding
by scholarship program „Junge Kunst und neue Wege“ of the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art.
How might we help seniors
to overcome limitations of aging autonomously?
The change
ally is an app that enables seniors to store actions they frequently use on physical NFC tags. This convergent product supports seniors to solve difficulties in their daily lives independently by assessing the tags when they experience age-related limitations.
“The camera is not ideal.
What bothers me the most
is that I tap somewhere and
then it makes a video.”
PARTICIPANT 02
Imagine you're 75 ...
... your fingers get thicker and stiff, and the nerves in your fingertips aren't as sensitive as they used to be. When you take a walk outside, the sun may diminish the color contrast, and as you get tired, you find it harder to focus. Tiny interface elements on your camera become even trickier to interact with.
