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Universal design : solutions for a barrier-free living / Oliver Herwig.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, 2008Description: 175 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 3764387181
  • 9783764387181
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 745.20846 22
LOC classification:
  • NA2545.A3 H47 2008
Contents:
My five hypotheses -- I. Universal design means design for everyone : Youth commodities and elderly products : arriving at the "quality of life": terminology ; Anything but old: a user's perspective ; The small universe: an observation of universal design classics / Gerrit Terstiege -- II. On using the users' perspective : Age as an economic factor or: comfort for everyone ; Gold rush mood in the Japanese silver market ; The fluke: the Porsche Cayenne: comfort for all -- Many small steps / interview with Mathias Knigge -- Universal design in practice: geared to age from head to foot : Seventy overnight: shopping in an age simulation suit ; An eye for an eye, an ear for an ear ; Smart home: intelligence in objects -- Eye : New user interfaces, new interactive systems ; Orientation systems: disorientation systems: written typeface and symbols in the age of universal use ; Helpful signs ; Losing the way in the forest of signs ; The future will be a challenge / interview with Ursula Wangler and Frank Abele -- Ear : Modern crossover: glasses that hear ; Size alone does not matter: mobile phones on the road to becoming an ergonomic product ; Removing barriers, challenging users / interview with Konstantin Grcic -- Head : It's all in the packaging ; Everything in one: rolling, grasping, pushing ; Nothing will burn here -- Foot : Doors suddenly open ; Walk well ; Mobility despite age ; All on board! ; The speedy wheelchair ; Comfortable and mobile in age / interview with Peter Naumann -- How should with design a home? : Barrier-free building as the task of the future ; Giving wings to restrictions / interview with Christine Degenhart ; Converting asserts: integrated housing in Regensburg ; Comfortable and active: adult care facility in Domat/Ems / Dietrich Schwarz ; Building for the elderly is building for everyone: residential complexes by Baumschlager Eberle Architects ; Standards do not solve problems / interview with Carlo Baumschlager ; Multigenerational living: social change as catalyst for new design solutions -- III. The future will be easy and comfortable -- Appendix: The principles of universal design.
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"Translation from German into English: Laura Bruce"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174).

My five hypotheses -- I. Universal design means design for everyone : Youth commodities and elderly products : arriving at the "quality of life": terminology ; Anything but old: a user's perspective ; The small universe: an observation of universal design classics / Gerrit Terstiege -- II. On using the users' perspective : Age as an economic factor or: comfort for everyone ; Gold rush mood in the Japanese silver market ; The fluke: the Porsche Cayenne: comfort for all -- Many small steps / interview with Mathias Knigge -- Universal design in practice: geared to age from head to foot : Seventy overnight: shopping in an age simulation suit ; An eye for an eye, an ear for an ear ; Smart home: intelligence in objects -- Eye : New user interfaces, new interactive systems ; Orientation systems: disorientation systems: written typeface and symbols in the age of universal use ; Helpful signs ; Losing the way in the forest of signs ; The future will be a challenge / interview with Ursula Wangler and Frank Abele -- Ear : Modern crossover: glasses that hear ; Size alone does not matter: mobile phones on the road to becoming an ergonomic product ; Removing barriers, challenging users / interview with Konstantin Grcic -- Head : It's all in the packaging ; Everything in one: rolling, grasping, pushing ; Nothing will burn here -- Foot : Doors suddenly open ; Walk well ; Mobility despite age ; All on board! ; The speedy wheelchair ; Comfortable and mobile in age / interview with Peter Naumann -- How should with design a home? : Barrier-free building as the task of the future ; Giving wings to restrictions / interview with Christine Degenhart ; Converting asserts: integrated housing in Regensburg ; Comfortable and active: adult care facility in Domat/Ems / Dietrich Schwarz ; Building for the elderly is building for everyone: residential complexes by Baumschlager Eberle Architects ; Standards do not solve problems / interview with Carlo Baumschlager ; Multigenerational living: social change as catalyst for new design solutions -- III. The future will be easy and comfortable -- Appendix: The principles of universal design.

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