Designing speculative household cleaning products for older adults
Susan P. Wyche · Conference on Designing for User Experience · 2005
Aging in place is a high priority for today's elderly population, but little is known about how age affects mundane domestic activities. To make older adult's desire a reality, design researchers must continue to understand elders' needs and design products that respond to them.Presented is a human-centered approach to designing cleaning products. The project resulted in: 1) an initial understanding how aging changes older adults' ability to clean their homes and 2) a collection of speculative cleaning products that demonstrate how greater empathy for elderly users can motivate innovative design.