福祉機器開発におけるボトルネックとその解決策 : 福祉機器開発事例の検証(機械要素,潤滑,工作,生産管理など)

Development of assistive technologies (ATs) includes many complicated difficulty, because it must be based on daily life of users with some disabilities. This paper describes bottlenecks in development process of ATs and their solutions. 10 cases of AT development processes were investigated, then the bottlenecks and their solutions were extracted from the investigations. The results revealed that developers were frustrated with gaps between developed devices and practical devices for the users. There were many bottlenecks for improving the developed devices to the practical devices. Discussion with AT developers resulted in indication of two paradigms for the solution. One is development process that includes solutions of each bottleneck predicted. Another paradigm is relationship with human society that includes outcome research, social system, thoughts of users and stakeholders. AT development research should consist of these two paradigms and will advance creating truly useful AT for the users.