Expanded Evaluation System for Design Guidelines of Universal Smart Kitchen

This study is to develop an evaluation system for kitchen before making design guidelines of universal smart kitchen (USK). Knowing that we need to have more evaluation criteria to assess USK other than those of universal design, we tried to make a new evaluation system. For this study, first, basic requirements to be considered to develop USK, such as `universal design,` `good design,` and `kitchen` were investigated through literature study and evaluation criteria for the requirements to assess USK were deduced. Each criterion is divided into 5 sub criteria. For example, the criterion of `universal design` consists of `equitable use`, `flexibility in use`, `intuitive use`, `accessibility` and `safety`. Then, by using the evaluation system consisted of 4 evaluation criteria with 20 sub criteria, we assessed four kitchens newly developed in Korea, America and Japan. The newly developed evaluation system (combining universal design, good design, technology and item: UGTI) is expected to be useful in assessing any item other than kitchen by replacing the layer of item.