Research on the design methods for elderly-oriented wearable orthopedic rehabilitation products
In order to meet the growing demand of the elderly for the use of orthopedic and reha-bilitation wearable products in the context of successful ageing,and to solve the problems in the existing product design,such as the relative lack of category segmentation and design methods,and the mismatch with the user's personalized needs,this paper proposes the design principle of"core demand add three modernizations and four characteristics"based on the excavation of core demand elements from the perspective of aging,orthopedic rehabilitation and wearable.Based on the techniques of body shape scanning,the NURBS surface reconstruction,error analysis and op-timization design,an innovative design method for multidisciplinary cross integration is construc-ted.Subjective and objective evaluation methods are developed by integrating subjective comfort,functional scale,gait,electromyography,foot pressure and other experiments.In addition,the design paradigm of wearable orthopedic rehabilitation products for the elderly has been innova-tively proposed.Taking foot orthotics as an example,the innovative design practice and experi-mental verification of orthopedic rehabilitation products are carried out.The results show that the design paradigm proposed in this paper can effectively meet the design and evaluation require-ments of orthopedic rehabilitation wearables and also can provide a theoretical basis for the design of other aging rehabilitation wearables.