A Study on Developing Methodology of Evaluating an Accessibility of Home Appliances

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Concerns about the quality of life and accessibility for people with disability have surfaced as a serious issue from early 2000 in Korea. Although, the laws has been established as a result, they are biased to information technologies and architectures. It rarely concerns about house appliances for everyday use. Therefore, the countermeasure that evaluates the level of accessibility of house appliances is urgently required. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to offer accessibility checklist, which can be used as a specific guidelines to improve the accessibility of home appliances, and to derive the quantitative score for service providers and designers. The laws relevant to accessibility and guidelines for the disabled are used to the evaluation items in checklist. However, the checklist have limitation that can"t address the level of accessibility in quantitative way. The AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and QFD(Quality Function Deployment) methods are used to give weight on each group in checklist. This method can show the actual level of accessibility of house appliances. Moreover, service providers and product designers can inspect the level of accessibility of their product by themselves.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• ABSTRACT
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Method
• 3. Results
• 4. Conclusion
• References