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Redesign of the Walking Stick for the Elderly Using Design Thinking in the Indian Context

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This paper addresses the walking stick issues with the target demographic being Indian elderly. The study includes an understanding of the various types of walking aids, the requirements of the target demographic, and the duration of usage of pertaining walking aid by them. Methodologies both existing and constructed were deployed to further understand the root level needs and reform of current designs. Ideas were generated using Indian anthropometric dimensions and requirements.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the support of SEED, DST project no. SP/YO/002/2017.

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  1. PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, 482005, India

    Shivangi Pande, Akshay Kenjale, Aditya Mathur, P. Daniel Akhil Kumar & Biswajeet Mukherjee

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  1. Department of Industrial Design, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India

    BBVL. Deepak

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India

    DRK Parhi

  3. Department of Production Engineering, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Odisha, India

    Pankaj C. Jena

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Pande, S., Kenjale, A., Mathur, A., Daniel Akhil Kumar, P., Mukherjee, B. (2020). Redesign of the Walking Stick for the Elderly Using Design Thinking in the Indian Context. In: Deepak, B., Parhi, D., Jena, P. (eds) Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2696-1_3

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