Research on Kitchen Products for People with Disabilities

Abstract

The problem of designing objects for people having some kind of disability represents a challenging subject for designers. The sources of people’s disabilities may vary from accidents to diverse diseases or genetic ones. The paper studies the situation when people cannot use both of their limbs stressing arthritis as the main cause of this fact. In order to give these people the opportunity to manage themselves without help from other people, the research was driven toward kitchen activities. A set of kitchen objects was designed to help people prepare food by themselves.