KID STROLLERS: ERGONOMICS, USABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY TOPICS

Abstract

Inmetro team realized a preliminary analysis of a kid stroller because of an accident report registered in their ombudsman. It was noticed that all the safety and registering requirements of the product were fulfilled and yet, the product reproved obtaining a high risk grade. The team of LaCA²I (Laboratory of Concept and Analysis of Artefacts with Intelligence) from UFPE (Federal University of Pernambuco) was then contacted to perform a technical study of the problem, by identifying a possible review of the standards/regulations used for the strollers design. The study was built inside a deductive research approach. The paper presents guidelines, instructions, requirements and appointmens to the product design, based on the body of knowledge of User Experience, more specifically, the disciplines of Ergonomics, Usability and Accessibility, complemented by topics of Aesthetics and Emotional Design. The results demonstrate preliminary data and their applications on a pilot test of this evaluation group with the flaw product, suggesting itens from the studied themes to the ABNT NBR 14289:2010 standard: Safety of kid strollers.