Title :
User-oriented universal design in parks of urban waterfronts
Author :
Park, Heon Chol ; Kondo, Takeo
Author_Institution :
Graduate sch. of Oceanic Archit. & Eng., Nihon Univ., Chiba, Japan
Abstract :
Affordance concept is applied to understand the relation between users´ behaviors and affordances of marine environments and supports the universal design. Marine environments have not only several positive action possibilities, but also behavior constraints. Users´ preferences on the environments share similarities and show differences.
Keywords :
oceanography; planning; marine environment; positive action possibility; urban waterfront park; user-oriented universal design; users behavior; Aging; Concrete; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Guidelines; Hazards; Manufacturing; Product design; Transportation; Usability;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS '04. MTTS/IEEE TECHNO-OCEAN '04
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8669-8
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405651
