Abstract
As one of the support to introduce of universal design, Kumamoto Industrial Reserch Institute as a member of a working group took part in the research and development of the information processing equipment from the 2002 fiscal year. The working group constituted by company, designers, university, our institute and so on in Kumamoto. We have adopted a concept of "Universality" to introduce universal design that is suited the actual situation of each company in Kumamoto. We tried to phase in universal design with universality, through getting better design solutions or another new target user groups step by step, making a clear grasp of target user groups and remaining problems. Evaluating of universality of the intelligence device, we got 75 design solutions and problems. And in baced on this case, we considered the evaluation of universality and the introduction universal design into small and medium-sized Company in Kumamoto.
