Research On The Design Strategy Of Aging-Friendly Intelligent Home Bathroom Context

With the development of intelligent technology and the drive of the silver economy,concepts such as age-appropriate design and smart aging are attracting more and more attention,and information technology is increasingly providing support for the elderly and elderly care,and intelligence will become a new norm for the elderly.The bathroom space is closely linked to people’s lives in the area,bathroom product research is an important guarantee to enhance the quality of life of the elderly,and the current elderly home in the bathroom situation is still facing a low degree of aging,poor safety and protection,operation and use difficulties,ignoring the emotional experience of the elderly and other problems,can not meet the needs of the elderly home bathroom.The purpose of this project is to study the design tools of the aging-friendly intelligent home bathroom context,from the perspective of the contextualized design of smart home,by extracting the influencing elements and interactions of the aging-friendly intelligent home bathroom context from the original sample data,propose design strategies and design ideas,and summarize them into a design strategy toolkit to provide more and more suitable design methods for designers,and also provide research ideas and references for other aging-friendly intelligent design contexts.This paper firstly defines the concept and object of age-appropriate smart bathroom context,collects the original data samples of relevant users and brands,and deconstructs the context by applying the procedural method of rooting theory.Through two rounds of analysis: open coding and selective coding,the four core influencing elements of the ageing-friendly smart bathroom context and their subelements are obtained,and the relationships between the different elements are sorted out through theoretical coding to refine a diagram of the influencing elements of the ageing-friendly smart bathroom context,which illustrates the relationships between the core elements and their subelements in the context and their mechanisms of action.Secondly,based on the influence The seven design strategies and corresponding design ideas of the ageing-friendly smart bathroom context are proposed based on the diagram of the influencing factors,namely the design strategy of the environment element to develop the overall bathroom solution,the design strategy of the smart device element to focus on key devices and balance the device decision and user control,the design strategy of the user element to give the product growth and inclusiveness,and the reasonable construction of a two-way learning mechanism between the user and the system and the balance of The design strategy for the data element is to balance the need for safety monitoring of the elderly with data privacy issues.Finally,the design strategies and design ideas were translated into clear and standardised design strategy toolkit cards,which were validated and optimised in a double-blind experimental workshop,resulting in an age-appropriate smart home bathroom design strategy toolkit that can be used by designers.The paper concludes by summarising the findings and conclusions of the research,analysing the limitations and shortcomings of the research process and proposing future research perspectives.