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There is a huge market for Chinese kids furniture, which, however, is still designed on the level of traditional Ergonomics. The paper, targeted at Shanghai middle-class family, analyzes the correlation between the needs, purpose, behavior and viewpoints of multi-users, based on the data collected through Ethnography. With many factors such as family structure, environmental factor and educational notion taken into account, it constructs user segmentation of multi-users’ kids furniture in terms of persona and accordingly gives suggestions on Human Factors Design of kids furniture.
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Dai, L., Xu, B. (2013). Human Factors Design Research with Persona for Kids Furniture in Shanghai Middle-Class Family. In: Rau, P.L.P. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. Methods, Practice, and Case Studies. CCD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8023. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39143-9_6
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