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Increasing Sustainability by Improving Full Use of Public Space: Human Centred Design for Easy-to-Walk Built Environment

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Advances in Ergonomics in Design

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The paper presents the application of Human Centered Design Methodology for easy-to-walk built environment, meaning for easy-to-walk a place where features and finishing of built environment are selected to give a path really supporting all the scopes of different walking users, in condition of comfort, safety and pleasantness. Overcoming current research, focusing falls studies and showing a separation among biomedical, psychological and technical disciplines, the paper shows an integrated approach where technical requirements for easy-to-walk built environment (i.e. dimensions, flooring materials and constructive characteristics together with climatic, acoustic and illuminations conditions) are derived from the observation of different users’ ability and limitations. To do that mobility models have been defined in order to consider walking personal attitude and habits; age of the users and their physiological and pathological modifications; movements, perception and cognition in temporary and permanent disabilities; motivations and life styles of users.

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The paper discusses and develops part of results of the research MiSP, financially supported by INAIL, the Italian National Institution for Insurance against Accidents at Work, Campania Region.

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Attaianese, E. (2016). Increasing Sustainability by Improving Full Use of Public Space: Human Centred Design for Easy-to-Walk Built Environment. In: Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 485. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41983-1_43

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