Smart Bed Design for Senior Citizens: A Quality Function Deployment Approach

DOI

10.2991/ictim-17.2017.56How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Quality Function Deployment, smart bed, senior citizens

Abstract

With the increasing number of senior citizens, the quality of their life arises more attention. Smart beds can be used as intelligent tools to easy their life. Besides, as the user-oriented care becomes more dominant recently in healthcare industry, especially for the elderly, Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is used for smart bed's design. As a quality control method, QFD is a systematic process to translate "voice of customers" into technical requirements by focusing more on users' needs and could contribute to achieve customers' satisfaction better. By house of quality process, this article points out that in order to meet customers' demands, designers should think more on sleep function and postural adjustment.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiao Chen
AU  - Xiaosong Zheng
AU  - Jiehui Jiang
PY  - 2017/09
DA  - 2017/09
TI  - Smart Bed Design for Senior Citizens: A Quality Function Deployment Approach
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Transformations and Innovations in Management (ICTIM 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 726
EP  - 734
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ictim-17.2017.56
DO  - 10.2991/ictim-17.2017.56
ID  - Chen2017/09
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