EXPERIMENTS OF COMFORTABLENESS AND TASK DIFFICULTY EVALUATION OF THE GOING IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE BY THE HEART RATE OF AGED AND DISABLED PEOPLE : A study about designing for the space of the going in and out of the house in a cold and snowy region

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to eva ］ uate degree of difficu ］ ty for going in and out of the house ， whichis t【ied correspondence to the comfortableness． The subject consisted of s persons， a typical post − stroke hemiplegia ， with a whee 亅 chair by spinal cord damage and 3 Withoutdisabled ． In the task ， five kinds of going in and out in the houseand wa ］ king inし he fiatground ， were prepared ， and the subjects were instructed to do at their comfortable speed ． I used Beats Above Baseline Index to examine the phenomenon observed in these e 文 periments ．