Accessible-Design Standards for Consumer Products Developed in ISO/TC 159/SC 4/WG 10

Kenji Kurakata*

*Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    ISO/TC 159/SC 4/WG 10, entitled “Accessible Design for Consumer Products”, has been developing a series of accessible-design standards since 2007. Accessible design is a design of products, services and built environments focused on diverse users to maximize the number of potential users who can readily use them in diverse contexts. Consumer products are categorized as a major group of products to which accessible design could be applied most effectively because they should be usable for everyone regardless of their abilities/characteristics, without prior training or knowledge about the usage. Furthermore, different kinds of consumer products are often used at the same time in the home. Therefore, it is desirable that the user-interfaces of those products be “standardized” to make them easy to use for every potential user. This paper introduces the present activities of the WG for those who are interested in developing products, services and built environments with enhanced accessibility for everyone.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) - Volume VII
    Subtitle of host publicationErgonomics in Design, Design for All, Activity Theories for Work Analysis and Design, Affective Design
    EditorsSebastiano Bagnara, Riccardo Tartaglia, Sara Albolino, Thomas Alexander, Yushi Fujita
    PublisherSpringer-Verlag
    Pages1553-1557
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Print)9783319960708
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019 Jan 1
    Event20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2018 - Florence, Italy
    Duration: 2018 Aug 262018 Aug 30

    Publication series

    NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
    Volume824
    ISSN (Print)2194-5357

    Other

    Other20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2018
    Country/TerritoryItaly
    CityFlorence
    Period18/8/2618/8/30

    Keywords

    • Accessible design
    • Consumer products
    • ISO standards

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Control and Systems Engineering
    • Computer Science(all)

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