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Development of a Mobile Planter Structure to Enable Ease of Use and Enjoyment for the Aging Gardener

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Advances in Industrial Design (AHFE 2021)

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The physical activity of gardening promotes positive benefits to the aging body through exercise and mobility, provides opportunities to be inspired through social interactions and improves the quality of life through nurturing. This research focused on designing a mobile planter system for aging users that promoted ease of use and enjoyment, to prevent the physical and mental challenges faced from prolonged inactivity. A multi-phased design approach was used that explored form, materials, functionality and aesthetic, all to develop a structure that allowed for up-right gardening, as opposed bending, kneeling on ground or squatting for the aging user.

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This research was funded through the 2019–2020 University of Oregon College of Design Tinker Hatfield Innovation Award - Design for Healthy Aging project.

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  1. University of Oregon, 70 NW Couch Street, Portland, Oregon, 97209, USA

    Susan L. Sokolowski, Daniel Calabrese & Mark Fretz

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  1. Department of Industrial Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

    Cliff Sungsoo Shin

  2. Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio, Pescara, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Bucchianico

  3. System Design and Management, Keio University, Musashino, Japan

    Shuichi Fukuda

  4. DAAP School of Design, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Yong-Gyun Ghim

  5. Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Gianni Montagna

  6. Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Cristina Carvalho

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Sokolowski, S.L., Calabrese, D., Fretz, M. (2021). Development of a Mobile Planter Structure to Enable Ease of Use and Enjoyment for the Aging Gardener. In: Shin, C.S., Di Bucchianico, G., Fukuda, S., Ghim , YG., Montagna, G., Carvalho, C. (eds) Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 260. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80829-7_63

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