Open AccessEASILY (Easy to Use Kitchen Utilities) Designing Cutting Boards Sets for Elderly and Arthritis Sufferers with Quality Function Deployment
Author(s) -
Alfan Zubaidi,
M K Sumitro,
Amirah Shafa Husna
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/530/1/012055
Subject(s) - usability , respondent , quality function deployment , product (mathematics) , population , quality (philosophy) , engineering , process (computing) , operations management , computer science , medicine , human–computer interaction , mathematics , philosophy , value engineering , geometry , environmental health , epistemology , political science , law , operating system
Based on the Indonesian Population Census in 2015, the number of elderly people aged over 60 years in Indonesia reached 2.1 million people. Elderly women do ADL (Activities Daily Living) is higher than the population of elderly men. One ADL that is still often done by the elderly woman is cooking while the process of manually using a cutting board. The purpose of this research is to developed cutting board set named EASILY (Easy-to-Use Kitchen Utilities) which is a set of cutting tools consisting of ergonomic knife and cutting board that comfortable to use and also it does not need much power from operator to do the cutting activities. The steps taken with the method of Quality Function Deployment, to process and interpreting consumer need for product specifications. Usability test is applied with satisfaction attribute performed to determine the level of user satisfaction through interview when subject using EASILY product. The result of this reserach show that EASILY have 4 components there are Cutting Board, Knife Holder, Food Holder, and Trash Tray. The subject feel comfortable while using EASILY after doing the usability testing. Recommendation for further reserach the product development can be done using another product design method, and the usability testing should using more respondent.