South Korea is rapidly becoming an aging society, and moreover, there is an increasing number of the handicapped by congenital or acquired causes, wherewith there has been a growing interest in rehab medicine industry and rehab training. Hereat, this ...
South Korea is rapidly becoming an aging society, and moreover, there is an increasing number of the handicapped by congenital or acquired causes, wherewith there has been a growing interest in rehab medicine industry and rehab training. Hereat, this study was conducted to develop the design of bike-type rehab equipment. In line with it, an investigation was made into the problems of healthcare designs and bike-rehab training, and then the bike-type rehab equipment was evaluated with regard to its usability and applicability, from the perspective of rehab patients. After an ergonomic analysis was made of Koreans’ physical characteristics, a cluster analysis was made of 54 samples, bike-type rehab devices made by 5 companies, in addition to a trend analysis on shapes and colors. Based on the results, idea sketches were evaluated in twice and the design was created with 3D modeling. The proposed designs were evaluated by 10 rehab-device indexes, wherefrom the most ideal proposal was selected. Then, a prototype was made as designed and its usability was evaluated by rehab patients. The last step was to correct and compensate the problems and defects detected in the process of usability evaluation, and the final prototype came out on this wise.