Potential Universal Design of Rubbish Bins for Visually Impaired People and Their Psychological Preference Analysis

Abstract

Appropriate designs of rubbish bins could inspire the public for separate garbage collection in efficient way. Because of that reason, we need to understand people’s psychological preference on each bin for each types of waste such as paper, recyclable cans, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or plastic bottles, and others. Even if waste and bins are really close to our daily life, there have been few dedicated design projects about appropriate trash bin design globally. When it comes to industrial design, there are several important things to consider. Arguably, one of the most integral factors is users. This is because design should be preferred by users. However, in the future, many researchers expect, large part of our population will be the elderly. According to the United Nations, “Globally, population aged 60 or over is growing faster than all young age groups.”. Thus, we need to consider our new design research focused on average physical ability of the elder people for better waste collection and management. Universal Design could be one of solution to tackle people’s physical difficulties. In this paper, we investigated potential universal design with principles and design concepts.