Product Design And The Elderly User Behavior Correlation

This thesis mainly discusses the relationship between product design and the elderly behavior. It makes a deep research on the one which plays an important role in product design by analyzing and comparing the behavior. User behavior consists of four key elements--people, environment, object and messages, the relevance of which with product design constitutes the core of this thesis.The first part analyzes the characteristics of people, discusses the direct impact on the products for the elderly, and probes into some requirements of product design which is used for the elderly. The second part analyzes the reason and significance of selecting the environment by researching the change of behavioral environment of the elderly. And this part discusses its impact on design. The third part, from the view of objects in users' behavioral environment, explores the needs of the elderly, and put them into product design. The fourth section analyzes the characteristics of information during behavior process to summarize user's unconscious aspirations for product.