Interdisciplinary Approach of the Design Process for the Application of New Materials in Wheelchair Design

Paula Chacon-Cifuentes; Alejandro Zuleta-Gil; Gustavo Sevilla Cadavid; Andres Valencia-Escobar; Esteban Correa-Bedoya; Felix Echeverria-Echeverria

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20470-9_9

Interdisciplinary Approach of the Design Process for the Application of New Materials in Wheelchair Design

Paula Chacon-Cifuentes, Alejandro Zuleta-Gil, Gustavo Sevilla Cadavid, Andres Valencia-Escobar, Esteban Correa-Bedoya, Felix Echeverria-Echeverria

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Abstract

The appropriation of new technology requires the design and development of products that are accepted by the market. Developing such products is a complex task that usually requires the integration of knowledge from multiple disciplines. In the field of new materials, developments that can be applied to assistive technology are constantly made. This work studies the collaboration between users and professionals from industrial design, engineering, human factors, and disability for the design of an all-terrain wheelchair. This product incorporates the use of magnesium alloys, a material with an excellent strength-to-weight ratio and good damping properties. With a human-centered design approach, tools such as interviews, focus groups, prototyping, and testing were used in several stages of the process. It allowed achieving a design that takes advantage of the properties of the new material and, at the same time, meets the mobility, stability and comfort requirements of the users.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design - Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, 2019
Editors	Cliff Sungsoo Shin
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	75-82
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9783030204693
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20470-9_9
State	Published - 2020
Event	AHFE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, 2019 - Washington D.C., United States Duration: 24 Jul 2019 → 28 Jul 2019

Publication series

Name	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume	968
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)	2194-5365

Conference

Conference	AHFE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Washington D.C.
Period	24/07/19 → 28/07/19

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Funding. Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación en Colombia (COLCIENCIAS), grant 1115745-58322.

Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. The authors are grateful to “Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)” of the Colombian Government (Grant 1115745-58322), “Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo y la Innovación (CIDI)” from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana through UPB-Innova Rad: 747B-03/17-35, Universidad de Antioquia, SENA and Universidad de Medellín.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

Assistive technology
Design practice
Light alloys
Product development
User-centered design

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Chacon-Cifuentes, P., Zuleta-Gil, A., Cadavid, G. S., Valencia-Escobar, A., Correa-Bedoya, E., & Echeverria-Echeverria, F. (2020). Interdisciplinary Approach of the Design Process for the Application of New Materials in Wheelchair Design. In C. S. Shin (Ed.), Advances in Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design - Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, 2019 (pp. 75-82). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 968). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20470-9_9

Chacon-Cifuentes, Paula ; Zuleta-Gil, Alejandro ; Cadavid, Gustavo Sevilla et al. / Interdisciplinary Approach of the Design Process for the Application of New Materials in Wheelchair Design. Advances in Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design - Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, 2019. editor / Cliff Sungsoo Shin. Springer Verlag, 2020. pp. 75-82 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

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Interdisciplinary Approach of the Design Process for the Application of New Materials in Wheelchair Design. / Chacon-Cifuentes, Paula ; Zuleta-Gil, Alejandro; Cadavid, Gustavo Sevilla et al.

Advances in Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design - Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, 2019. ed. / Cliff Sungsoo Shin. Springer Verlag, 2020. p. 75-82 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 968).

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