독거노인을 위한 다기능 시스템 소파 디자인 개발

A Study on the Development of Multifunctional Sofa System Design for the Elderly Living Alone- Focused on the Physical and Mental Characteristics -

In today’s aging society, stable residential environment is essential for the elderly liv-ing alone to be able to do activities of daily living without restrictions and cherish a satisfactory quality of life. We developed a safe and convenient multifunctional sofa by removing complex combinations and decomposing processes of the multifunctional transformable furniture, appro-priate for the use by elderly living alone. We deduced the 4 main keywords and details related to the purpose of sofa by analyzing the users’ physical and mental characteristics through liter-ature review and by using 24-hour scheduling, interviews, and actual measurement. Finally, by applying this to furniture planning, we designed 4 different types of multifunctional sofa system. Production was done in cooperation with AND Co. for 2 weeks using materials, colors and ad-hesives selectively chosen with careful consideration of their effects on the physical, mental as-pects of the user to give optimal comfortability.