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Most of us have known people whose capacities have undergone drastic change at some stage in their lives. Sometimes it is a traumatic experience, the result of an accident or an operation, while in other cases it is a more gradual process brought about by ageing. The simple process of ageing is strange, as I know from personal experience: for a long time you feel as though nothing has changed, or that the changes that have taken place have no influence, then all of a sudden you realise that so much has changed. All it takes is a minor accident, a moment’s distraction or a comparison.
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The method was presented by A. Accolla (Tongji University, Arts and Media College, Shanghai, China PRC) and L. Bandini Buti (Milan Polytechnic School of Design, Milan, Italy) at the First International Conference on Design for Inclusion, held in Orlando, Florida, in the framework of AHFE 2016, with a paper entitled Ask Yourself the Right Question. To know and understand the beauty of Human Diversity it is the first design step: a Design for All structured and autopoietic tool.
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EIDD Stockholm Declaration 2004 ©.
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The EU Contribution to Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations, Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Unit D. 3, November 2012. The document is available for download at http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=89&newsId=1632&furtherNews=yes.
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Fatto apposta—progetto per l’abitare del futuro, Confartigianato Vicenza, Vicenza 2014.
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Ergonomics teaches us that the correct ratio between the rise and the tread is provided by the formula 2R + T = 63, where R is the rise in cm and T is the tread in cm.
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One major contribution to this process comes from the Design for All Quality Label, which guarantees that the product or place in question caters for the needs of the various kinds of users.
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One of the Design for All Quality Labels was awarded to an interphone, BTicino’s Polix-Video, because it features a control and information system that caters for the needs of a variety of categories of users: people who know nothing about it (children or the elderly), those who normally use it (informed adults) and those who are to a certain extent experts (who can program the association of multiple functions).
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Bandini Buti, L. (2019). Active Ageing. In: Ask the Right Question. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96346-4_8
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