NDLI: Optimizing Kitchen Experience

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Optimizing Kitchen Experience

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Sundaram, Ravishankar Rukmangadhan, Saranya
Abstract	This project aims at exploring ways to enable active ageing. Active ageing is the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age. Nowadays, there is an increasing number of elderly living independently that lead us to delve into everyday spaces and tasks which might be difficult for them. In this context, kitchen space was chosen as the area of study as it is the highest functional room in every house. And the ability to cook for self with ease and comfort forms an important part of independent living. A good and safe kitchen space is very critical and often most neglected while planning a house. The aim of this project is to study Indian kitchens, mostly the modular kitchen segment, with respect to the aging population and come up with simple design interventions that can be easily adopted and implemented by this segment, in order to eliminate or reduce ergonomic risk factors.
Starting Page	147
Ending Page	156
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450348638
DOI	10.1145/3014362.3014380
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2016-12-07
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Design for india Optimizing space utilization Human factors and ergonomics Universal design User centric innovation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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