An inclusive approach for home environment design

Quality of life of various types of people can strongly benefit of a design process developed to take into account needs and requirements of end users. In this context the paper present a study on the cognitive and physical abilities of elderly persons, to design a friendly kitchen, that is considered one of the most complex home environment for the provided functionalities and involved human capabilities. A robust inclusive design approach is conceived to make simple and intuitive the interaction between humans and the systems installed in the kitchen environment. An investigation of virtual prototyping techniques is proposed to find the best Virtual Reality system to create a living lab to involve elderly in user-based assessment.