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User characteristics: Professional vs. lay users
(User characteristics: professional use vs lay use by Cifter A and Dong H)
The market success of a product largely depends on whether it correctly addresses the user needs. Understanding the user is increasingly becoming important in the design process. Different user models may determine different approaches to design. This paper identifies the characteristics of different types of users, with a specific focus on professional users and lay users. It gives a definition of professional users and lay users in the context of adapting products originally designed for professional use to the use of lay people (for example, home use medical devices). It summarises, and compares, the characteristics of professional users and lay users, suggesting that designers pay attention to user characteristics and the context of use so as to better address user perceptions and meet user needs
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Lay-user characteristics reflected by their interaction with a digital camera and a blood pressure monitor
The material is posted here with the permission of the publishers. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material must be obtained from the publisher.There is an increasing and evolving demand from the end-user market for the adaptation of products originally designed for professional-use to the use of lay people, for example, home use medical devices. However, there is a lack of understanding of lay user characteristics by product designers. This paper reports a study investigating lay user characteristics reflected by their interaction with digital products. A digital camera and a digital blood pressure monitor were tested with different user groups: 10 able-bodied young people; 10 healthy older people (65+) and 10 disabled people; and lay user characteristics were summarised
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Kapsayıcı Tasarım + Sosyal İnovasyon: Metodoloji ve Örnek Çalışmalar
The first four chapters of the Book provide academic perspectives on inclusive design, co-creation, social innovation, and social responsibility by distinguished authors from four universities, i.e., University of Cambridge, Kingston University London, Brunel University London, and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Chapter 5-7 focus on the SIDe project, its collaboration model that links Universities and NGOs for effective partnership on inclusive design projects through design education, and the reflections of the partners involved with whom the framework was tested. The last part of the book presents 14 inclusive design projects, as the design outcome of the SIDe collaboration framework, which involved 56 design students and four tutors with different backgrounds (industrial design, interior architecture, architecture, and city and regional planning), and two partner organisations in Turkey (the Six Dots Foundation for the Blinds and the Spinal Cord Paralytics Association of Turkey). At the end of this book, a comprehensive list of resources on inclusive design can be found focussing on different aspects of inclusive design and accessibility.
As the SIDe project team from the UK and Turkey, we hope this book will provide a case and method suggestion to build capacity for social innovation through sustaining effective inclusive design collaborations with different types of stakeholders and will inspire readers and help raise awareness on the importance of inclusive design spanning different scales.British Council's "Newton Fund - Research Environment Links Program.http://www.inclusivedesignside.org/side-project-boo