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The average age of the world’s population is constantly growing and all over the world, especially in the most developed countries, older people are nowadays a significant part of our society. The current connected and digital world, brings many advantages for the global population but also many disadvantages especially for older people, who tend to experience a reduction in physical and cognitive capacity as well as a diminished openness to new experiences. Design Research, in order to face this complex context, is experimenting the involvement of the users in the design process with Human Centered Design and Co-Design. In this paper, the authors analyze the usefulness of the HCD approach and its application on some case studies with different scales, regarding design projects addressed to aging users.
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The measurement scale of the Technology Readiness Levels (TRL), is mentioned and described in HORIZON 2020 – WORK PROGRAMME 2018-2020, General Annexes, Extract from Part 19 - Commission Decision C(2017)7124.
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Imbesi, S., Mincolelli, G., Petrocchi, F. (2021). How to Enhance Aging People’s Wellness by Means of Human Centered and Co-design Methodology. In: Cassenti, D., Scataglini, S., Rajulu, S., Wright, J. (eds) Advances in Simulation and Digital Human Modeling. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1206. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51064-0_28
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