Design and Development of a System to Manually Fabricate Contoured Seats for Children with Disabilities

Letechipia, Jorge; Arredondo, Abel; Fregoso, Graciela; Jourdain, Daniela; Montero, Aldo Alessi

doi:10.1109/ghtc.2011.29

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“…The work done to alleviate poverty through engineering could also be divided by product areas rather than by these principles. Some of the product areas with the most work related to them found in the literature are cookstoves and charcoal production [150][151][152][153][154][155][156][157][158][159][160], food processing [161][162][163][164], medical products and telemedicine [77,134,[165][166][167][168][169][170][171][172][173][174][175][176][177], manufacturing systems [178][179][180][181], lighting [60,[182][183][184][185][186], electrification [87,, and mobile phones and information and communication technology (ICT) [106,[212][213][214][215]…”

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Nine Principles for Design for the Developing World as Derived From the Engineering Literature

Mattson

Wood

2014

Journal of Mechanical Design

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This paper reviews the findings of several engineering researchers and practitioners on the topic of design for the developing world. We arrange these findings into nine guiding principles aimed at helping those who are searching for effective approaches for design for the developing world. The findings reviewed come from the mechanical engineering discipline, as well as from other engineering and nonengineering disciplines. For each principle, we provide references to various studies as a means of supporting the princi-ple. We also provide a detailed example of each principle. Based on our own experience and based on the many papers reviewed, we provide a succinct list of suggestions for using each principle. Finally, we relate these nine principles to traditional design princi-ples. Ultimately, we believe that the principles introduced here help overcome the chal-lenges of design for the developing world, which are often dominated by designer unfamiliarity with poverty and foreign culture and the constraint of extreme affordability. [DOI: 10.1115/1.4027984

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