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Over the past few decades, barrier-free design codes/regulations have been integrated into many countries’ national regulations. The existing guidelines, however, have been criticized for being too abstruse and professional for practical use by the general public. As a result, the aim of this research is to analyse the existing presentation of building codes and barrier-free design regulations, including the full variety of characteristics, behaviors and requirements, and identities of environments in order to translate the information within barrier-free design codes/regulations into suitable presentations that match the users’ requirements and special needs. In addition, suggestions for the presentation of codes/regulations are provided in this study.
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Tsai, TH., Chiou, WK., Liao, HY., Tseng, TX. (2011). Adopting User-Centered Design for the Translating of Barrier-Free Design Codes/Regulations. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2011 – Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 173. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22098-2_81
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